Live Auction 14963THE COLLECTOR: English and European Furniture, Works of Art & Ceramics & Silver
TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF SQUIRRELS
Lot 780 The West Collection

TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF SQUIRRELS

MID-18TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO BACK OF BASES, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER

Closed18 October 2017

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TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF SQUIRRELS
MID-18TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO BACK OF BASES, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER
Each holding a walnut in his forepaws, wearing a black collar and chain around his neck
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high, the larger

Douglas Lorie, Palm Beach, Florida.
Garbish Collection Part II; Sotheby's, New York, 17 May 1980, lot 199.

Specialist note

Compare the lighter colored pair of squirrels on ormolu bases in the Rothschild collection, A. Bount, ed., The James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddeson Manor, Meissen & Other Porcelain, London, 1971, pp. 164-165, no. 56. Other examples were in the Emma Budge Collectoin, Hamberg, sold Berlin, 4-6 October 1937, cat. no. 767, pl. 120 and the René Fribourg Collection, sold Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1963, lot 21.