A Meissen goblet and cover and a group of eighteen various Meissen hunting groups, late 19th/20th century

after the model by J. J. Kändler, the goblet modelled as a fluted bowl with a vacant cartouche, resting upon a tree trunk, the mound base applied with a figure of a hunter blowing a horn, standing over a dead stag, the cover modelled as a stag attacked by a group of hounds jumping over a barn, impressed numerals, the figures, most after models by J. G. Ehder and J. F. Eberlein, painted in enamels with gilding, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, various impressed marks; together with five Nymphenburg porcelain hunting groups, 20th century, impressed and green printed shield marks, some after Frankenthal originals, with crowned CT marks in underglaze-blue, the tallest, 18cm., 7 1/8 in. high

To the cover, one of the Stag's antlers is lacking. To the cup, one leaf has been re-stuck
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Comparative Literature
Marcus Köhler, Porcelain and Diplomacy at the Courts of Hanover and Cologne, Fragile Diplomacy, 2007, p. 194-207

Kändler began working on this model in May 1741 for Clemens August of Bavaria (1700-1761), Elector and Archbishop of Cologne, Prince Bishop of Münster, Paderborn, Hildesheim and Osnabruck. From Kändler's notes it seems the cup was not a commission from the Elector, but was intended as a gift for him. The cup, which is in a private collection is illustrated by Köhler, op. cit., p. 203, fig. 9-12b.

An example with the arms of August III, from The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 1974.356.337a, b. A further example decorated with a medallion of a hunting scene is in the Westfälische Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Munster. For discussions of Clemens August as porcelain collector, see Erich Köllmann, 'Kurfürst Clemens August von Köln. Ein Porzellansammler des 18. Jahrhunderts', in Keramos, 13/1961, pp.19-34