CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO ONE, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER AND J.G. EHDER

Kändler first modeled an oriole in July 1733, followed by the second in March 1734. Samuel Wittwer notes that twelve orioles were recorded in the inventories of the King’s Japanese Palace by 1735, and by 1770 that the inventory recorded sixteen orioles⁽¹⁾. In 1740, J.G. Ehder reworked Kändler’s earlier models, as the January entry in his workbook records: Eine Bierohle in Doone verbutzet⁽²⁾. Compare with the pair belonging to David and Peggy Rockefeller, sold at Christie's, New York, 9 May 2018, lot 194.

1. See S. Wittwer, The Gallery of Meissen Animals, Augustus the Strong's Menagerie for the Japanese Palace in Dresden, Munich, 2004, p. 345. A pair of these earlier models, formerly in the Japanese Palace and later in the Wrightsman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, were sold by Sotheby's, New York, on 27 October 2017, lot 14.
2. Cited by Sarah-Katharina Andres-Acevedo, Die Autonomen Figürlichen Plastiken Johann Joachim Kaendlers und seiner Werkstatt, Stuttgart, 2023, Vol. 1, p. 230.