A MEISSEN MODEL OF A CROUCHING LEOPARD, CIRCA 1750 |

naturalistically modelled, snarling, on a mound base applied with foliage and flowers, blue crossed swords mark to the back of the base

With old restorations which has discoloured and should be refreshed; broken through neck with associated restoration to its head, chest and to its jaws, further restorations to the tail at the back of the base. The extent of the damage below the restoration is difficult to state definitively. The underside of the base has traces of discoloured glue suggesting that the model was stuck to a base in the past.
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Leopards are mentioned in the Brühl inventory (1753): '6 Leoparden.  A similar example was sold Sotheby's, London, Property from the Collection of Sir Gawaine and Lady Baillie, 1 May 2013, lot 93. See Rückert, R., Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Munich, 1966, p. 191, no. 1052, pl. 260 for an example from the Ernst Schneider collection, Schloß Lustheim which is the model of the pair to the present example.