On a naturalistically designed, gold-accented base, between plastic tufts of foliage, sits a swan with a curved neck and upright head, as well as outstretched flight feathers. The plumage is realistically and relief-like. Polychrome painting. Either Johann Joachim Kaendler, circa 1748. Model numbers 1039 and 1046. Partially small firing cracks. Restored. Sword mark. Height 31.5 cm. In appearance, the birds resemble the swan figures executed by Johann Joachim Kaendler and Johann Friedrich Eberlein for the famous Swan Service, which was made for Count Heinrich von Bruhl. Although they were not created in connection with the tableware, they can be arranged excellently with the Swan Service. See catalog of the State Porcelain Manufactory Meissen, Colorful Birds, plate 10, numbers 1069, 1070; Pietzsch, Meissen Porcelain Sculpture, numbers 312f; Pietzsch, Swan Service, fig. 69f. A pair of large porcelain swan figures. Partly firing cracks. Restored. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. 2nd half of the 19th century.
