A GROUP OF EIGHT MEISSEN MINIATURE FIGURES OF BIRDS SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY

comprising: a yellow-crested cockatoo, a guinea hen with spotted plumage, a swan, a crested dove with an orange beak and light grey markings, a dove with with a spotted face and grey-tipped plumage, a dove with brown plumage, a partridge with a red breast and a hen with speckled brown and black plumage, three with crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue. Some minor chips and restoration.

(the swan), The Collection of Comte Alberic du Castel de la Howarderie, sold, Christie's, Geneva, November 16, 1992;
(the partridge), Sold, Sotheby's, London, December 15, 1972, lot 240