TWO MEISSEN MODELS OF A JAY AND A SQUIRREL, CIRCA 1740-45, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS

TWO MEISSEN MODELS OF A JAY AND A SQUIRREL
CIRCA 1740-45, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, each with the bird perched on an oak tree-stump, one with a red squirrel to one side, the other with a squirrel emerging from a hole in the tree-stump beside a nest with a bird feeding its chicks
Example with squirrel to one side: 15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) high
Example with squirrel in tree-stump: 15 ½ in. (39.3 cm.) high

Provenance
77 Meissener Porzellanvögel und Französisches Kunstgewerbe aus einer bekannten Privatsammlung, Auktionskatalog, Hermann Ball/Paul Graupe, Berlin 1933, no. 30, pl. 6 (the example with the squirrel to one side).

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF RITTER KEMPSKI VON RAKOSZYN (LOTS 26 - 38)

Literature
Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Sammlung Ritter Kempski von Rakoszyn: Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, 2008, p. 95 , nos. 70 & 71.