Live Auction 7470Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit Including Collection of a Nobleman Part I
FIVE MEISSEN WHITE BISCUIT FIGURES OF THE APOSTLES
Lot 219 Property of the late Sir Simon Hornby

FIVE MEISSEN WHITE BISCUIT FIGURES OF THE APOSTLES

FIRST QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY, FOUR WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, DOUBLE CANCELLATION MARKS TO THREE, INCISED NOS 2, 8, 9, AND 12, INCISED TRIANGLE ENCLOSING CROSSED SWORDS TO FOUR

Closed20 November 2012

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GBP 9,375

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FIVE MEISSEN WHITE BISCUIT FIGURES OF THE APOSTLES
FIRST QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY, FOUR WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, DOUBLE CANCELLATION MARKS TO THREE, INCISED NOS 2, 8, 9, AND 12, INCISED TRIANGLE ENCLOSING CROSSED SWORDS TO FOUR
Modelled as St. Bartholomew, St. James the brother of John, St. Paul, St. Thaddeus and St. Thomas after the originals by J.J. Kändler, each on shaped plinth base, together with three plaster wall brackets
The tallest 19 7/8 in. (50.5 cm.) high (5)

Specialist note

Kändler made several sets of the Apostles, the designs for which are very similar to the twelve sculptures of the Apostles filling the niches of St. John Lateran in Rome.