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A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF ROLLERS, CIRCA 1740-45

Auction Closed

November 20, 10:09 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF ROLLERS

CIRCA 1740-45


modelled by Johann Joachim Kändler and Johann Gottlieb Ehder, each perched on a high stump applied with heart-shaped leaves, one with a small bird perched in a nest below, applied with a small beetle, the other applied with a large beetle and two caterpillars

height 13 in.

33.1 cm

Property from the Estate of the Late Giuseppe Rossi, Sotheby's London, 10 March, 1999, lot 513
See footnote to lot 203.

Sotheby's Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.