19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO THE BREAST OF ONE

Name: A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN TEAPOTS AND COVERS MODELLED AS PHOENIX
Brand: 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO THE BREAST OF ONE
Price: 3000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 3,780

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN TEAPOTS AND COVERS MODELLED AS PHOENIX

19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO THE BREAST OF ONE

Price Realised GBP 3,780

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Modelled by J.J. Kändler, each looking back over its shoulder, enriched in colourful plumage
4¹⁄₄ in. (11 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

This form is modelled after a Yixing original in red stoneware from the collection of Augustus the Strong and still in the Porzellansamlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (PO 3898). Kändler's taxa refers to a cockerel in place of phoenix.

An example of this model is in the British Museum collection (1928,0116.14.CR). Two examples, one with a curved neck and one with neck out-stretched are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (34.1348a-b). The white and gilt example at Boston, with curved neck, also has a cover with lion finial, similar to the present example, as does the Yixing stoneware original model. Other polychrome examples are in collections Fenton House, London, National Trust (NT1448100) and the collection of Ernst Schneider, Schloss Lustheim, see Rainer Rückert, , Munich 1966, cat. no. 1126. Two similar examples in Meissen porcelain are held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum (accession nos. 42.205.51a, b and 1974.356.801a, b). A further example of this model was sold Bonhams, London, 6 July 2021, lot 26.