A Meissen white porcelain life-size figure of a lynx, 20th century

after the model by J. G. Kirchner for the Japanese Palace, sitting and panting, incised 74 with a ->

Collection of Edward and Kiyi Pflueger
Christie's New York, 20 October 2006, lot 511

good condition
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The model was created by Johann Gottlieb Kirchner in January 1733, as mentioned in the work report: ' in the month of January 1733, I made ready the following... a lynx, life-size'. The worn-down molds were then renewed in March-April 1921 by Karl Stein.

Edward and Kathleen (Kiyi) Pflueger built together one of the largest private collections of 17th and 18th century pottery and porcelain and particularly admired for the models from the Japanese Palace in Dresden and the impressive number of porcelain Commedia dell'Arte figures. They acquired in 1949 the Otto Blohm porcelain collection and continued for forty years assembling a superb collection of 700 pieces, which was published in 1993. After Kathleen's death in 2006, 377 pieces from the Pflueger collection were donated to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the rest was sold in October at Christie's New York.