A Figure Group 'Cupids playing music'
Johann Joachim Kaendler (Fischbach/Sachsen 1706 - Meissen 1775)
Lot-No. 627
Proceeds : 600 €
Meissen, designed mid-18th cent., made around 1860. Four music-making putti with conductor. Model number '2489'. Swords mark. Prof. Rest. H. 15 cm. - German porcelain modeller and sculptor, taught by the sculptor Thomae in Dresden, whose baroque influence is especially visible in his animal figures, in 1731 appointed court sculptor by August the Strong, at the same time beginning his work for porcelain manufacture Meissen, which he directs for many years, his works are among the highlights of early European porcelain.
Johann Joachim Kaendler: A Figure Group 'Cupids playing music'
Johann Joachim Kaendler (Fischbach/Sachsen 1706 - Meissen 1775)
A Figure Group 'Cupids playing music'
Lot-No. 627
Proceeds : 600 €
Meissen, designed mid-18th cent., made around 1860. Four music-making putti with conductor. Model number '2489'. Swords mark. Prof. Rest. H. 15 cm. - German porcelain modeller and sculptor, taught by the sculptor Thomae in Dresden, whose baroque influence is especially visible in his animal figures, in 1731 appointed court sculptor by August the Strong, at the same time beginning his work for porcelain manufacture Meissen, which he directs for many years, his works are among the highlights of early European porcelain.
