True Connoisseurship: The Collection of Ezra & Cecile Zilkha

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A PARROT, CIRCA 1745

Auction Closed

November 20, 10:09 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A PARROT

CIRCA 1745


Blaustirnamazone, with blue, green and red plumage, perched on a low stump applied with leaves and red berries

height 7 7/8 in.

20 cm

Collection of Lord Biddulph, Under Down, Ledbury, Herefordshire
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York
Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sotheby's New York, 25 April, 1998, lot 65
Carl Christian Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection, New York 1970, Volume IV, p. 60, no. 24
A similarly colored parrot of this model is illustrated in Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and Other Continental Porcelain, Faience, and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, New York 1956, col. pl. 5, fig. 10, and was in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, subsequently sold at Sotheby's Monte Carlo, 26 May, 1980, lot 414.

Sotheby's Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.