Live Auction 17185The Collector: European and English Furniture, Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures & Works of Art
TWELVE MEISSEN PORCELAIN MONKEY BAND FIGURES
Lot 57 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF BARONESS CARMEN THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA (LOTS 57 & 109-127)

TWELVE MEISSEN PORCELAIN MONKEY BAND FIGURES

THE MAJORITY CIRCA 1755, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO TEN EXAMPLES, VARIOUS PRESSNUMMERN

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TWELVE MEISSEN PORCELAIN MONKEY BAND FIGURES
THE MAJORITY CIRCA 1755, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO TEN EXAMPLES, VARIOUS PRESSNUMMERN
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, standing on a scroll-moulded base, comprising: a drum-bearer, a piper with a drum, three songstresses, two trumpeters, a guitar-player, a lute-player, a bassoonist, a violinist and a bagpiper
The drum-bearer 4 ¾ in. (12.1 cm.) high

Specialist note

The Meissen monkey band, or 'Affenkapelle', was one of the later achievements of J.J. Kändler. In December 1753, Lazare Duvaux, the Paris marchand-mercier, supplied 'Mme la Marquise de Pompadour... Dix neuf figures de Saxe formant un concert de singes, avec les instruments & attributs, a 23l., 437 un pupitre même porcelaine, 6l'. Indeed, the original inspiration for the band may have come from France where 'singeries' were aleady popular. See Robert Charleston, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Meissen and Other European Porcelain, Fribourg, 1971, no. 63.