Lot 60
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TWO GILT-METAL-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF PUGS
TWO GILT-METAL-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF PUGS
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PROPERTY FORMALLY IN THE COLLECTION OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF WINDSOR (LOTS 59-67)
TWO GILT-METAL-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF PUGS

CIRCA 1745

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TWO GILT-METAL-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODELS OF PUGS
CIRCA 1745
Naturalistically modelled by J.J. Kändler, seated on their haunches, the bitch suckling a puppy, on oval mound bases applied with flowers and foliage
7 ¼ in. (18.2 cm.) high overall

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Kändler's Taxa for June 1744 notes 2 neue Mops Hunde auf einem Rasen sitzend, angefangen zu poussiren und selbigen die gehörige Action und Gestalt gegeben, welche hernach dem Bildhauer Reinicken vollends fertigen lassen. The record for December of the same year includes a description of the female pug, both models corresponding to the present examples. See Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Munich, 1966, nos. 1091 and 1092 for examples of these models.

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