A Louis XV ormolu and Meissen porcelain arbour the porcelain group modelled by J. J. Kaendler, 1746; bocage circa 1746

the porcelain group with a lady seated in a flowered dress feeding a cherry to a parrot perched on the branches of a tree, flanked by the kneeling figure of Harlequin, also holding a cherry, the foreground with a circular tripod table perched by a bird, raised on a later voluted ormolu base cast with c-scrolls and wave ornament; the tôle peinte arbor fitted with leafy branches and an assortment of French and German polychrome porcelain flowerheads.  With crossed swords mark in blue. With spurious C couronné poinçon.

Collection of the late Oscar Dusendschön, Geneva, sold, Sotheby's, London, June 12, 1960, lot 136, illustrated.

Collection of the late Stewart Granger, sold, Christie's, London, May 20, 1963, lot 153, illustrated.

This porcelain group is fully described in Kaendler's factory records and dates from 1746.  Similar examples of this group are in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, illustrated, Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain, fig. 76, pl. 21; in the Cecil Higgins Museum, Bedford, illustrated, W.B. Honey, Dresden China, pl. 47a; the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford (Morgan Collection); Von Klemperer collection; Von Pannwitz collection, and the National Trust (Fenton House).