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862 - Meissen Königliche Porzellanmanufaktur
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Meissen Königliche Porzellanmanufaktur Peter Reinicke Johann Joachim Kaendler A Meissen porcelain elephant with a blanket Standing model with raised trunk. Unmarked. The trunk restored. Height 7 cm, length 14.8 cm. April 1746, the model by Peter Reinicke and Johann Joachim Kaendler, the moulding and decoration contemporary with the model. Ulrich Pietsch quotes Kaendler’s work report of April 1746: “7. A model for a small elephant modelled in clay.” In addition to the examples without a howdah in Dresden and at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, Sarah Katharina Andres-Acevedo lists three further examples with a howdah: In the collection of the Grassi Museum of Applied Arts, Leipzig (inv. no. 1904.151); the Sèvres National Museum of Ceramics (inv. no. MNC 11059); and the British Museum, London (inv. no. 1923,0314.74.CR). Provenance Christie’s London, auction on 21 February 2005, lot 137. South German private collection. Literature The model is illustrated in Pietsch, Die Arbeitsberichte des Meissener Porzellanmodelleurs Johann Joachim Kaendler 1706–1775, Leipzig 2002, p. 112. See also Andres-Acevedo, Die autonomen figürlichen Plastiken Johann Joachim Kaendlers und seiner Werkstatt zwischen 1731 und 1748, vol. 2, Stuttgart 2023, work report 615.
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