CIRCA 1740

细节

A Meissen Kakiemon hen tureen
Circa 1740
Modelled by J.J. Kändler as a hen seated on an oval basket with two chicks perched on her back, she with iron-red comb and wattles, gilt beak and iron-red, turquoise, green, purple and black plumage, her wing and tail feathers enriched with gilding, the chicks with gilt markings to their heads, white backs, turquoise, purple and gilt wing feathers and iron-red, green, yellow and purple tails, the white reeded basket with ozier moulding (minute restored chip to comb, very slight restoration to hen's beak and slight hairline crack to underside of one chick)
73/8 in. (18.5 cm.) wide

注意事项

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

Cf. Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (1966), pl. 278, no. 1132.
See Kändler's Taxa 1740-48: "1 Auff einem Korbe sizende Henne, nebst 2 Jungen, so als eine Zucker-Dose zu gebrauchen vor die Printzessin von Herfordt, 5Thlr."

(This lot is sold with a certificate of the result of a thermoluminescence analysis which is consistent with the above date).