Live Auction 7815White Gold 18th Century Porcelain from Meissen and Du Paquier Property of The Byrnes Children Trust
Christie’s roundel
Lot 92

A PAIR OF MEISSEN HUNTING GROUPS

CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS

Closed12 May 2010

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GBP 18,750

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN HUNTING GROUPS
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, each horned bison with grey markings to its coat, one bison attacked by three hounds, the other by two hounds and a hound with a spotted coat, on oval mound bases applied with flowers and foliage (bison with restoration to tails and ears, some further damage to extremities, bases cracked), sold with two modern giltwood oval stands
9 in. (22.9 cm.) wide (2)

The Estate of Pauline K. Cave, sale Sotheby's, New York, 16th November 1984, lot 122
With Charles Bernstein, Oakland, California, 1987

Specialist note

Similar examples of these Aurochs (extinct European Bison) are illustrated by Carl Albiker, Die Meissner Porzellantiere (Berlin, 1959), nos. 192 and 193, and a single example is illustrated by R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), pl. 282, no. 1152. Kändler's taxa records groups of this type in April-May 1741, at the cost of 8 Thalers.