A Meissen porcelain model of a Turkish man taming a rearing horse
A Meissen porcelain model of a Turkish man taming a rearing horse
Finely painted group on a round base encrusted with flowers and foliage. Hollow glazed base with blue crossed swords mark. Both the horse's front legs and the ears restored, a filled firing crack to the underside. H 26.3 cm.
Model by Johann Joachim Kaendler, around 1750.
In 2013, Sotheby's (Collection of Sir Gawaine and Lady Baillie, London, May 1st 2013, lot 176) published a similar group as well as a painting by Aert Schouman (1710 - 1792) showing portrait of the Dutch banker Thomas Hope (1704 - 1779) with two dealers grouped around a table on which, among other things, this exact Meissen group stands. The painting is dated 1753, which indicates that the porcelain group was created earlier.
Literature
Cf. Pietsch, Die figürliche Meißener Porzellanplastik von Gottlieb Kirchner und Johann Joachim Kaendler, Munich 2006, cat. no. 26 f., for a model of an African man with a Spanish horse, presumably the counterpart.
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A Meissen porcelain model of a Turkish man taming a rearing horse
Finely painted group on a round base encrusted with flowers and foliage. Hollow glazed base with blue crossed swords mark. Both the horse's front legs and the ears restored, a filled firing crack to the underside. H 26.3 cm.
Model by Johann Joachim Kaendler, around 1750.
In 2013, Sotheby's (Collection of Sir Gawaine and Lady Baillie, London, May 1st 2013, lot 176) published a similar group as well as a painting by Aert Schouman (1710 - 1792) showing portrait of the Dutch banker Thomas Hope (1704 - 1779) with two dealers grouped around a table on which, among other things, this exact Meissen group stands. The painting is dated 1753, which indicates that the porcelain group was created earlier.
Literature
Cf. Pietsch, Die figürliche Meißener Porzellanplastik von Gottlieb Kirchner und Johann Joachim Kaendler, Munich 2006, cat. no. 26 f., for a model of an African man with a Spanish horse, presumably the counterpart.
