Live Auction 16719The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: English & European Furniture, Ceramics and Decorations, Part I
A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF SPARROW HAWKS (SPERBER)
Lot 204

A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF SPARROW HAWKS (SPERBER)

CIRCA 1740, ONE WITH FAINT BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AND TWICE IMPRESSED 34, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER

Closed9 May 2018

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF SPARROW HAWKS (SPERBER)
CIRCA 1740, ONE WITH FAINT BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AND TWICE IMPRESSED 34, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER
Each modeled perched on a tree-stump, the female disemboweling a lark, the male with his beak buried in a vole's abdomen
11 ½ in. (26.5 cm.) high, the male

Acquired from Stoner & Evans, Inc., New York, November 1949.

Specialist note

Kändler's Taxa for April 1734 mentions the model with a lark '1 Rittelweibgen oder Lerchengeyer, welches vorstellet in Lebensgrösse, wie eseine Lerche frisst, rubet auf einem verziertem Postament.' Similar examples of both are illustrated by Carl Albiker, Die Meissener Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1959, p. 103-5. A pair mounted as candelabra were sold Christie's, London, 12 December 2002, lot 80.