A rare bird figure "Waxwing"
Johann Joachim Kaendler (Fischbach/Sachsen 1706 - Meißen 1775)
Lot-No. 602
Proceeds : 7.800 €
Meissen, middle of 18th cent. Naturalistically painted bird on a branch base with insects. Partly rest. Crossed swords in u"glaze blue. H. 24 cm. - Kaendler mentions this model in his Arbeitsbericht from 1741. See: Pietsch, Die Arbeitsberichte des Meissener Porzellanmodelleurs Johann Joachim Kaendler, Leipzig 2002, p. 76. Another example of this rare figure is in the coll. Of the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
Johann Joachim Kaendler: A rare bird figure "Waxwing"
Johann Joachim Kaendler (Fischbach/Sachsen 1706 - Meißen 1775)
A rare bird figure "Waxwing"
Lot-No. 602
Proceeds : 7.800 €
Meissen, middle of 18th cent. Naturalistically painted bird on a branch base with insects. Partly rest. Crossed swords in u"glaze blue. H. 24 cm. - Kaendler mentions this model in his Arbeitsbericht from 1741. See: Pietsch, Die Arbeitsberichte des Meissener Porzellanmodelleurs Johann Joachim Kaendler, Leipzig 2002, p. 76. Another example of this rare figure is in the coll. Of the Metropolitan Museum, New York.