True Connoisseurship: The Collection of Ezra & Cecile Zilkha
True Connoisseurship: The Collection of Ezra & Cecile Zilkha
A MEISSEN SMALL FIGURE OF A PARROT, CIRCA 1740
Auction Closed
November 20, 10:09 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A MEISSEN SMALL FIGURE OF A PARROT
CIRCA 1740
modelled by Johann Joachim Kändler, perched on a low stump applied with oak leaves, its plumage covered in blue, red, green, puce and yellow, traces of crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue
height 5 3/4 in.
14.6 cm
Christie's London, 24 February, 1997, lot 283
Christie's London, 5 July, 2004, lot 163
Christie's London, 5 July, 2004, lot 163
Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Alexanders Tiere, Sammlung Axel Guttmann, Band VII, Mainz 1999, pp. 84-85, no. 96.
The figure is of the 'medium sort' modelled by Kändler in 1740, most likely designed to suit gilt-bronze mounts commissioned by Parisian marchands-merciers. A parrot of the pairing model to the present lot, mounted on a Louis XV gilt-bronze timepiece stamped with French tax mark of a crowned C Couronné (1745-1749), was in the Collection of Sir Gawaine and Lady Baillie, sold at Sotheby's London, 1 May, 2013, lot 85.
Sotheby's Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.
Sotheby's Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.