True Connoisseurship: The Collection of Ezra & Cecile Zilkha
True Connoisseurship: The Collection of Ezra & Cecile Zilkha
A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A ROLLER, CIRCA 1745
Auction Closed
November 20, 10:09 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A ROLLER
CIRCA 1745
modelled by Johann Joachim Kändler and Johann Gottlieb Ehder, with right wing raised, perched on a high stump applied with green leaves, a beetle and a caterpillar, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to rear of base
height 14 in.
35.5 cm
Property of a Lady, Christie's London, 2 November, 1998, lot 336
See footnote to lot 203.
Sotheby's Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.
Sotheby's Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.