Live Auction 16719The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: English & European Furniture, Ceramics and Decorations, Part I
TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF PARROTS
Lot 202

TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF PARROTS

CIRCA 1742, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO ONE, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER

Closed9 May 2018

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TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF PARROTS
CIRCA 1742, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO ONE, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER
Each modeled perched on a tree-stump applied with berried leaves
7 ¾ in. (19.8 cm.) high, the taller

Mrs. Charles E. Dunlap.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 3 December 1975, lot 300.
Laurance S. Rockefeller (acquired at the above auction through the Antique Porcelain Company, New York).
The Estate of Laurance S. Rockefeller, 11 July 2004.

Specialist note

Examples of these models, which are noted in Kändler's work records circa 1740, are illustrated by R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Munich, 1966, p. 266, no. 1080 and 1082.