CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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Closed: 25 Sep 2024

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN GROUP OF A SULTAN RIDING AN ELEPHANT

CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

Price Realised GBP 6,930

Closed: 25 Sep 2024

Price Realised GBP 6,930

Closed: 25 Sep 2024

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Modelled by P. Reinicke and J.J. Kändler, the elephant standing to the right with a curled trunk, the Sultan sitting on its back holding a sceptre with a gilt crescent, wearing a jewelled turban, on an ormolu mounted wooden pedestal
12¹⁄₄ in. (31 cm.) high, overall

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 9 November 1987, lot 225.

Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Collection Franz E. Burda, Meissen, Augsburg, 1997, p.115, fig. 41.

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Kändler's of March 1741 records: ; and Reinicke's of November 1743 mentions: . Sheet 18 of his sketchbook shows an elephant which is very similar in feel to the present model.

A similar example is illustrated by Carl Albiker, Berlin, 1959, no. 255. Two models are in the Ansbach Residenz, see Rainer Rückert, Munich, 1966, pl. 263, nos. 1060 and 1061. A version of this model and its corresponding group, a Sultan on a rhinoceros, from the Collection of S.B. Joel, was sold by Christie's on 29 May 1935, lot 33. Another pair mounted on ormolu from The William S. Paley Collection were sold by Christie's in New York on 21 October 2004, lot 1236.