CIRCA 1745, THE MOUNTS 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED MODELS OF PUG-DOGS
CIRCA 1745, THE MOUNTS 19TH CENTURY
Naturalistically modelled by J.J. Kändler, each seated on its haunches, the pug bitch with her pup at her feet, their coats enriched in shades of grey and brown, mounted on gilt-bronze stepped oval bases with beaded bands (the dog with chip to right paw, pup with small chip to left paw)
8 3/8 in. (21.2 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The models are recorded in Kändler’s Taxa for June 1741 as ‘Ein sitzender Mopss Hund in Lebens Grösse’ and again in November and December of the same year as ‘Einen mittelmässigen Mopss Hund als Compagnon’. For an illustration of a very similar pair of pug-dogs in the Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden see Ulrich Pietsch, Die figürliche Meissner Porzellanplastik von Gottlieb Kirchner und Johann Joachim Kaendler, Munich, 2006, p.193, nos. 297 and 298. A Meissen pug and pup group of a slightly different model was sold in these Rooms on 30 September 2014, lot 125.

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