Live Auction 16270The Collector: English and European 18th and 19th Century Furniture, Ceramics, Silver & Works of Art
FOUR MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURES EMBLEMATIC OF THE CONTINENTS
Lot 224 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM KELLY SIMPSON

FOUR MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURES EMBLEMATIC OF THE CONTINENTS

CIRCA 1745-50, FAINT BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO ASIA, MODELED BY J.J KÄNDLER

Closed23 October 2018

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FOUR MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURES EMBLEMATIC OF THE CONTINENTS
CIRCA 1745-50, FAINT BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO ASIA, MODELED BY J.J KÄNDLER
Each female modeled holding their continent's respective attributes, Europe riding a horse, Africa a lion, Asia a camel and America an alligator
8 ½ in. (21.5 cm) high, Europe

With the Antique Porcelain Company, New York, 1959 (America).

Specialist note

Compare the four Continents in the Pauls Collection, Basel, see P.W. Meister and H. Reber, European Porcelain of the 18th Century, Oxford, 1983, p. 163, nos. 278 & 290. Also compare the four from the Nelson Rockefeller collection, sold Sotheby's, New York, 11 April 1980, lot 194 and those illustrated by. Y. Adams, Meissen Figures, 1730-1775 The Kaendler Period, Atglen, 2001, pp, 182-3, nos. 491-4. For a set of the same models on ormolu bases, see Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 2007, lot 269.