Lot 1550 - A192 The Müller-Frei Collection - Tuesday, 16. June 2020, 02.00 PM
AN IMPORTANT MEISSEN GROUP OF LOVERS WITH A BIRD CAGE
Circa 1736. The model by Johann Joachim Kändler.
Underglaze blue swords mark.
H 12.7 cm.
Restorations to the arms and legs, and to the hem of the lady's dress.
Provenance:
- Collection Baron Maurice de Rothschild, Geneva.
- Auction Christie's London, The Property of a Noted European Collector Part I, 28. 03. 1977, Lot No. 123.
This group belongs to the most important "hoop skirt-" or "crinoline groups" in Meissen, it is the earliest of its kind designed by Kändler.
Comparative items in public and private collections:
Porcelain Collection, Dresden (Royal Saxon Collections); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Untermyer Collection);
Museum of Applied Arts, Berlin (formerly Hermine Feist Collection); Bernese Historical Museum, Berne (Kocher Collection); Villa Fioridiana, Naples;
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA (Morgan Collection); Hermitage, Saint Petersburg;
Auction Sotheby's London, 25.06.1963, Lot No. 17 (formerly René Fribourg Collection); Historisches Museum Basel, Haus Kirschgarten (Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection); Auction Christie's, 21.02.2005, Lot No. 47 (Swiss private collection).
Provenance:
- Collection Baron Maurice de Rothschild, Geneva.
- Auction Christie's London, The Property of a Noted European Collector Part I, 28. 03. 1977, Lot No. 123.
This group belongs to the most important "hoop skirt-" or "crinoline groups" in Meissen, it is the earliest of its kind designed by Kändler.
Comparative items in public and private collections:
Porcelain Collection, Dresden (Royal Saxon Collections); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Untermyer Collection);
Museum of Applied Arts, Berlin (formerly Hermine Feist Collection); Bernese Historical Museum, Berne (Kocher Collection); Villa Fioridiana, Naples;
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA (Morgan Collection); Hermitage, Saint Petersburg;
Auction Sotheby's London, 25.06.1963, Lot No. 17 (formerly René Fribourg Collection); Historisches Museum Basel, Haus Kirschgarten (Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection); Auction Christie's, 21.02.2005, Lot No. 47 (Swiss private collection).
CHF 40 000 / 60 000 | (€ 41 240 / 61 860)
Sold for CHF 116 200 (including buyer’s premium)
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