861 - Meissen Königliche Porzellanmanufaktur

Meissen Königliche Porzellanmanufaktur Johann Joachim Kaendler, zugeschrieben Johann Friedrich Eberlein, zugeschrieben A rare Meissen porcelain figure of a hunter On an oblong rocky base applied with leaves and flowers, a hunter leaning forwards in a lunging stance in front of a tree stump, aiming his gun. Unglazed, pierced base with a faint blue crossed swords mark. Restored, two firing cracks in the base filled at the manufactory. Height 16.7 cm. 1747, the model by Johann Joachim Kaendler, the moulding and decoration contemporary with the model. Ulrich Pietsch quotes the following entry in Kaendler’s work reports for July 1747: “A hunter in his proper attire, depicted lying in the firing position with a ball-firing gun, shooting at a stag.” Provenance Frank Oberacker art dealers, Frankfurt. South German private collection. Literature Cf. another example of this rare group, formerly in the collection of Dr Julius Bischitz, Budapest, in the catalogue Auktionshaus Glückselig, Porzellansammlung, Gemälde Dr. Julius Bischitz, Budapest, Vienna 1929, p. 10, no. 37, pl. 10. Cf. Morley-Fletcher, Porzellan aus Meissen, Wiesbaden 1971, p. 87. Cf. Pietsch, Die Arbeitsberichte des Meissener Porzellanmodelleurs Johann Joachim Kaendler 1706–1775, Leipzig 2002, p. 119.