A GROUP OF EIGHT MEISSEN PORCELAIN MONKEY BAND FIGURES, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY |

modelled by J. J. Kändler and Peter Reinicke, comprising a cellist, two bagpipers, a flautist, a drum beater, a female singer, a violinist, and an organist, each painted in muted tones of pale yellow, pink and green upon bases edged in gilded scrollwork, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to underside, and a further female singer, probably 19th century,

the bagpiper with dark puce frock coat and the female singer with pale-yellow dress, Anonymous sale, Bonhams London, 25th May 2011, lot 202, 204.

The overall appearance of the group is good. There are traces of professional restoration on vulnerable extremities of the models. Bagpiper with a puce-coat, restoration at the brim of his hat, the instrument's pipes and his two hands and coat cuffs, small restored chips on base; Bagpiper with dark puce-coat, lower pipes of instrument and right arm replaced, small restored area to lower left corner of coat; Violinist, both hands, taile, bow and neck of instrument, brim of hat and small restored chip to base; Keyboardist, upper monkey's tail, left upper left paw, and spray to back of frock coat; Cellist, brim of hat, right arm re-stuck at shoulder, right foot, lower part of bow and lower neck of cello, area on edge of base; Flautist, the instrument and most of the figure's lower section is sprayed making it difficult to determine true extent of damage; Drum beater, areas of brim of hat, right lower toes, tail, both sticks probably replaced; The female singer, probably 19th century, both hands, music book, one finger lacking; Female singer with pale-yellow bodice, loss to section of music book, chips to base egde and minor chips to extremities of costume; The restoration is of a good qaulity.
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