MIESNIA - Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Kakadu

porcelain, enamel paints; height 23.3 cm, base (almost circular) 10 x 9.6 cm ;
signed in cobalt under-glaze: crossed swords, imprint : 29, engraved: 57b (model number) ;
Germany, Meissen, Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur, according to model by Johann J. Kaendler (1706-1775) dated 1734 , reduction - early 20th c. (19th/20th century)
Cockatoo parrot, sitting on a bough with artistic foliage, with orange underpainted head feathers and tip feathers.
estimate: PLN 2,000 - 2,400 PLN 1,800.
Two cockatoo parrots with model numbers 57a and 57b, noted in the Meissen mold archive, are a reduction of J.J. Kaendler's 1734 model, approx. 36 cm high, realized in pair for the royal porcelain collection at the Japanese Palace in Dresden and the decoration of the porcelain room in the tower of the Dresden Castle (Turmzimmer); cf. Kaendler's note on the work on the cockatoo sitting on a branch, Arbeitsberichte, September 1734.