Important French Furniture from the Collection of Dr. Alexandre Benchoufi

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Lot 40
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An Assembled pair of Ormolu-Mounted Meissen porcelain figures of golden orioles, modeled by J.J. Kändler the porcelain circa 1740-45, the ormolu German circa 1770

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Description

  • height 12 in.; width 3 1/4 in.
  • 30.5 cm; 8 cm
each modeled perched upon a tree stump and raised on a footed ormolu base. Restorations. With impressed numerals 6 and 26.

Catalogue Note

Modeled by Johann Joachim Kändler in 1734 and subsequently worked on by Ehder in 1740 and 1741, and by Reinicke in 1747. For the entries for the respective work records see, Carl Albiker, die Meissner porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1959, illustrated figs. 104-105, reference pp. 15-16.