porcelain, polychromed and gilt, 21 items: guitar player height: 14,5 cm, flutist with transverse flute height: 13,5 cm, hurdy gurdy player height: 14 cm, flutist height: 13,5 cm, trumpet player height: 13,5 cm, harpist height: 12 cm, violinist height: 14 cm, bag piper height: 14,5 cm, bass drummer height: 13,5 cm, bass drum porter height: 13,5 cm, bassoonist height: 14 cm, bass violinist height: 12 cm, triangle player height: 14 cm, pianist height: 13 cm, flutist with drum height: 15 cm, Kapellmeister with music stand height: 18 cm, 9 cm, French horn player height: 15 cm, singer with green dress height: 13 cm, singer with bonnet and blue band height: 12,5 cm, singer with bonnet and red band height: 12,5 cm, singer with bonnet and light yellow band height: 12,5 cm, few small restorations, 1 minimal firing crack; Meissen, blue and underglaze blue crossed swords, 2nd half 19th cent., Kapellmeister with stand ca. 1950, model by Johann Joachim Kändler ca. 1747 (Ru)

Lit.: VEB Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen;
This series of musical monkeys, modelled by Johann Joachim Kändler, are based on French models dating to ca. 1750. The male monkeys are depicted as musicians, the female monkeys as singers. The Monkey Orchestra was brought up to date in 1765 by Peter Reinicke. According to tradition, they represent a caricature of the orchestra employed by Count Brühl.