AN ASSEMBLED MEISSEN PORCELAIN TWENTY-TWO PIECE MONKEY BAND (AFFENKAPELLE)

20TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, VARIOUS INCISED AND IMPRESSED MODEL NOS. AND PRESSNUMERN, AFTER THE MODELS BY J.J. KÄNDLER

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AN ASSEMBLED MEISSEN PORCELAIN TWENTY-TWO PIECE MONKEY BAND (AFFENKAPELLE)
20TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, VARIOUS INCISED AND IMPRESSED MODEL NOS. AND PRESSNUMERN, AFTER THE MODELS BY J.J. KÄNDLER
Comprising: a conductor with stand, four female singers, three drummers, a cymbalist, a bassoonist, a flautist, a bag-piper, a clarinet player, a french horn and trumpet player, a pianist riding an unclothed monkey, a harpist, a violinist, a cellist, a guitarist and a hurdy gurdy player
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high, the conductor

Lot Essay

These comical figures were likely inspired by murals by Christopher Hüet at Chantilly. For a drawing of the trumpet player likely by Hüet, see L. and Y. Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures, London, 1987, p. 194.

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