TWO MEISSEN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MODELS OF GUINEA-FOWL
CIRCA 1745, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, to the left and right, their black bodies with white speckled markings, purple and grey necks and red wattles and combs, each perched astride tree-stumps with leafy branches, one with turquoise reeds and a red flower, each on pierced acanthus-scroll gilt-metal bases (each with chipping to beak and slight flaking to enamels, one chipped to one wattle and lacking a flower to base, the other chipped to claws, leaves and branches)
The highest 8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) high overall (2)
TWO MEISSEN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MODELS OF GUINEA-FOWL
CIRCA 1745, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, to the left and right, their black bodies with white speckled markings, purple and grey necks and red wattles and combs, each perched astride tree-stumps with leafy branches, one with turquoise reeds and a red flower, each on pierced acanthus-scroll gilt-metal bases (each with chipping to beak and slight flaking to enamels, one chipped to one wattle and lacking a flower to base, the other chipped to claws, leaves and branches)
The highest 8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) high overall (2)
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