A large Meissen porcelain monkey band

A large Meissen porcelain monkey band

Twenty one figures and one music stand. Comprising: Conductor with music stand, four female singers, an organist, a harpist, three figures playing a flute, clarinet and bassoon, a drummer, a tympani player and holder, bagpipe player, triangle player, hurdy gurdy player, lute player, double bass player, violinist, horn player and a trumpeter. All figures with blue crossed swords mark, impressed or incised model numbers, painter's marks in various colours and further incised or impressed marks. H of conductor 17, H of music stand 9.5 cm.
20th C., models by Johann Joachim Kaendler and Peter Reinicke, 1753 - 1765.

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

"Cf. rare 18th century models in the collection of Dr. Ernst Schneider (Rückert, Munich 1966, cat. 1064, 1065, 1070, 1071, 1076 etc.), in the Ludwig collection (cat. Glanz des Barock, Bamberg, undated, no. 185) and in Sonntag (Keramos 193/2006, p. 8), who also publishes the engravings by Guélard after drawings by Christophe Huet (1700 - 1759) which are still housed in the archive of the Staatlichen Porzellan-Manufaktur in Meissen.
Cf. also a detailed description of several figures and their prototypes in cat. Hidden Valuables Early-Period Meissen Porcelain from Swiss Private Collections, Munich-Stuttgart 2020, no. 183 - 195."