Live Auction 14963THE COLLECTOR: English and European Furniture, Works of Art & Ceramics & Silver
A MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODEL OF A MARMOSET (PINSELÄFFCHEN)
Lot 778 The West Collection

A MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODEL OF A MARMOSET (PINSELÄFFCHEN)

CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AT THE BACK, THE MODEL ATTRIBUTED TO J.J. KÄNDLER

Closed18 October 2017

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODEL OF A MARMOSET (PINSELÄFFCHEN)
CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AT THE BACK, THE MODEL ATTRIBUTED TO J.J. KÄNDLER
Modeled seated, holding a yellow fruit in its right paw, his long tail curling around the shaped rockwork base
9 ¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 March 1989, lot 97.
Private Collection, Switzerland.

Specialist note

For a discussion of the model and comparison examples, see S. Wittwer, The Gallery of Meissen Animals, August the Strong's Menagerie for the Japanese Palace in Dresden, Munich, 2006, p. 102, fig. 88 and pp. 315-316.