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After the models by J.J. Kändler, each as a rocaille-form vase painted, after Jacopo Amigoni, with scenes of either Earth, Air, Water or Fire, applied with putti and further attributes to their respective elements, including chickens pecking the ground to the base of Earth, a putto holding bellows on the base of Air, a basket of fish to the base of Water and pistols to the base of Fire
13 ½ in. (34.2 cm.) high, each approximately
Provenance
Kitley House, Yealmpton, Devon.
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For a related set of engravings by Georges-Leopold Hertel, after Jacopo Amigoni, of Earth, Air, Fire and Water, see the National Galleries Scotland, accession nos. P 3100.1-4.
A variation of the models of Water and Earth were in the Sammlung Hermann Emden, Hamburg, sold at Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, 3-7 November 1908, nos. 481 and 482. A very similar set modelled by Kändler, but representing The Four Seasons instead of The Elements, are in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence (Summer and Autumn) and in the Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten, Berlin-Brandenburg. See Ulrich Pietsch and Claudia Banz, Triumph of the Blue Swords: Meissen Porcelain for the Aristocracy and Bourgeoisie 1710-1815, Dresden, 2010, p. 350, cat. no. 415. A similar set of vases sold Dalva Brothers: Parisian Taste in New York, Christie's, New York, 22 October 2020, lot 24.

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