CIRCA 1735-40, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASE

An example of this rare model, in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, museum no. 64.101.130), and another is illustrated by Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, Celebrating Kaendler, Meissen Porcelain Sculpture, Zum 300. Geburtstag Johann Joachim Kaendlers 1706-1775. Porzellanskulpturen aus Meissen, Taufkirchen, 2006, p. 29, cat. no. 1, and by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50, London, 2008, p. 257, cat. no. 45 (sold by Sotheby's, New York, on 24 October 2019, lot 311). An ormolu-mounted pair, from the Marouf Collection, were sold by Bonhams, London, on 5 December 2012, lot 40. A further example sold Christie's London, 16 December 2021, lot 114.

According to Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, ibid., 2006, p. 29, Schindler was the personal Leibhusar of Graf Heinrich von Brühl (1700-63). The author also reproduces (p. 30) a painting of 1747 depicting a Leibhusar standing between a court figure and a Heiduck of Graf Brühl, and suggests that it was probably painted to celebrate the marriage of Princess Maria Josepha to the Dauphin of France in 1747. The model of Schindler, who wears the uniform of the Hussar regiment, was probably created around the same time as Kändler's figure of Augustus the Strong's court jester, Joseph Fröhlich. A simpler version of the model was produced at the Kelsterbach factory.