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A fine and important pair of Meissen Groups of Rearing Horses and their Grooms, each modelled after Johann Joachim Kaendler as spirited Arab stallions, each with dappled white coats, cropped tails and long manes, led by their bridles, one by a blackamoor and the other by a Turk, each in typical brightly coloured silks and turbans, the rearing horses supported on rockwork extending to the irregular shaped bases issuing flowers and vegetation.
Circa: 1770
Height: 9 ¼ in (23.5 cms)
Marks: Blue crossed swords and dots marks to both.
Provenance: E.A. Treherne Esq. E.L. Paget, sold Sotheby's London 27th July, 1945, Lot 111.
In composition, this group was almost certainly inspired by the pair of monumental marble groups, Chevaux Retenus par des Palefreniers, modelled by Guillaume Couston 1739-1745 for the Château de Marly and moved in 1794 to their present location in Paris at the intersection of the Champs Elysé with the Place de la Concorde.
A Louis XV clock incorporating this same group, recorded in the collection of A.A. Levesque in 1767, was sold from the Riahi Collection, Christies New York, 2 November 2000, lot 49. For other Meissen examples see Ernst Zimmermann, Meissner Porzellan, p. 194, pl. 59; Catalogue of the von Pannwitz Collection, nos. 335 and 336; and Schönheit des 18, Jahrhunderts, the Zurich Exhibition Catalogue, 1955, p.52, fig. 40.