260 - Rare figurine of a cat with a mouse. A cat sitting on its hind legs on a pedestal adorned with sculpted flowers and leaves, facing to the right, its long tail curving and winding down to its front paws. It has raised its left paw up to its head, holding a gray mouse in its mouth. Brown-speckled, finely hatched fur pattern. Polychrome painting. Designed by Johann Joachim Kaendler. Label on the base from the Parisian gallery “Les armes du chevalier,” No. 2306. Minor restoration; firing cracks. Sword mark. Height: 18 cm.

Rare figurine of a cat with a mouse. A cat sitting on its hind legs on a pedestal adorned with sculpted flowers and leaves, facing to the right, its long tail curving and winding down to its front paws. It has raised its left paw up to its head, holding a gray mouse in its mouth. Brown-speckled, finely hatched fur pattern. Polychrome painting. Designed by Johann Joachim Kaendler. Label on the base from the Parisian gallery “Les armes du chevalier,” No. 2306. Minor restoration; firing cracks. Sword mark. Height: 18 cm. Johann Joachim Kaendler’s completion report from January 1741 states: “A seated cat, 8 inches high, holding a mouse in its throat.” Four examples of this model are listed in the so-called inventory of Imperial Count von Brühl from 1753. See Andres-Acevedo 2023, vol. 2, Nos. 244 and 245; Cat. Pietsch, Swan Service, Inventarium, Ch. 22; Albiker, Fig. 216; Kunze-Köllensperger, Guttmann Collection, Cat. No. 76. A rare porcelain figure of a cat with a mouse modeled by J.J. Kaendler. Gallery label “Les armes du chevalier” in Paris, no. 2306. Slightly restored. Firing cracks. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. Circa 1745.