FINE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART
Royal Splendour
A Rare Meissen Group of Harlequin and Columbine feeding Parrots, modelled by J.J.Kaendler showing Columbine, wearing a floral painted dress, her puce edged bodice laced with iron red threads her gently smiling head inclined up towards a green parrot perched high up in a tree that she tries to reach with her left hand, her right arm leans on a small gilt edged circular table on which sits another green parrot, Harlequin, wearing a conical hat, white ruff and jacket, turquoise trousers and red heeled yellow shoes enters the scene from behind and bursts into the fray, his scowling face painted with the crescent moons, the mound base applied with flowers and leaves.
Circa 1746.
Height: 71⁄4 ins. (18.4 cms.)
Marks: traces of the blue crossed swords mark to the underside of the base.
The
group is described in the factory records as modelled by Kaendler between
November and December of 1746, as ‘Feierabendarbeit’ or evening work.
There is an example in the Judge Irwin Untermeyer Collection at the