CIRCA 1745-50, FAINT BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO ASIA, MODELED BY J.J KÄNDLER

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FOUR MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURES EMBLEMATIC OF THE CONTINENTS
CIRCA 1745-50, FAINT BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO ASIA, MODELED BY J.J KÄNDLER
Each female modeled holding their continent's respective attributes, Europe riding a horse, Africa a lion, Asia a camel and America an alligator
8 ½ in. (21.5 cm) high, Europe

Provenance

With the Antique Porcelain Company, New York, 1959 (America).

Lot Essay

Compare the four Continents in the Pauls Collection, Basel, see P.W. Meister and H. Reber, European Porcelain of the 18th Century, Oxford, 1983, p. 163, nos. 278 & 290. Also compare the four from the Nelson Rockefeller collection, sold Sotheby's, New York, 11 April 1980, lot 194 and those illustrated by. Y. Adams, Meissen Figures, 1730-1775 The Kaendler Period, Atglen, 2001, pp, 182-3, nos. 491-4. For a set of the same models on ormolu bases, see Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 2007, lot 269.

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