Nine monkey musicians

Lot 4016 limit € 7.000

Meissen manufactory, swords underglaze blue, 8 x 1st quality, 1 musician (timpani player) with 1 cut through, including: timpani, timpani player, bagpipe player, clarinetist, monkey with drum and flute, monkey with violin, monkey with cello, monkey with triangle and monkey with guitar, each on a rocaille base with tree support, based on the model by JJ Kaendler and P. Reinicke, first model 1753-65, polychrome painted, decorated in gold, invisibly restored, H up to approx. 15 cm, pommel swords from the middle of the 19th century to 1923