A rare Meissen porcelain walking cane topper - image-1

Lot 1110 Dα

A rare Meissen porcelain walking cane topper

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 14:30 - Porcelain Glass
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 1.386 € (incl. premium)

A rare Meissen porcelain walking cane topper

Formed as the head of a parrot and decorated with a finely painted merchant navy scene. Unmarked. Restored. H 6.6 cm.
1740s.

Provenance

Private collection Westphalia.

Literature

Cf. Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge 1956, fig. 129, pl. 88, another cane topper with a parrot's head in the collection of Irwin Untermyer, housed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, since 1964 (acc. no. 64.101.175).