A Meissen porcelain monkey teapot and cover, circa 1735, mod...

Hammer

£12,000

A Meissen porcelain monkey teapot and cover, circa 1735, modelled by J.J. Kaendler, the seated monkey naturalistically coloured, wearing an iron red and gilt belt, her young in her arms and on her back forming the spout and handle, unglazed base, 19.5cm high

CONDITION: There are tiny fritted and unglazed patches all over. The cover has losses to the leaves, a tiny splinter chip to the edge and a broken and loosely pinned fruit finial. The seated monkey's left foot is restored with discoloured and slightly cracked restoration around the area. There are firing cracks to the inner thigh of the large monkey's left leg and to the left arm of the monkey forming the handle.



This model is recorded in Kaendler's work record from July 1735.

For another example, see Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and Other Continental Porcelain, Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, pl. 91, fig. 146 and John Sandon, Meissen Porcelain (2010), p.50.

cf. another example lacking its cover sold by Bonhams, London, The Hasse Collection of German Porcelain, 8 Oct 2014, Lot 45.