21 items: guitarist height 14 cm, flute player height 13.5 cm, hurdy-gurdy player height 14 cm, clarinettist height 13.5 cm, double bass player height 12.5 cm, Triangle player height 14 cm, bugle player height 15 cm, pianist height 13.5 cm, trumpeter height 13.5 cm, harpist height 13 cm, violinist height 13.5 cm, bagpipes player height 14.5 cm, drum and pipes player height 16 cm, singer height 13 cm, singer height 12 cm, singer height 12.5 cm, singer height 13.5 cm, bassoon player height 14.5 cm, timpani player and carrier height 14 cm, 13.5 cm, band master height 17.5 cm, music stand height 9 cm, porcelain, polychrome and gilt group, gilt-accented rocailles socles, 1 guitar peg chipped, 1 violin bow x 2 glued parts, Meissen, underglaze blue sword mark circa 1960, model by J. J. Kändler circa 1747 (Ru)

Johann Joachim Kändler produced the 23 monkeys circa 1747 and reworked them with the modeller, Peter Reinicke circa 1765 in Meissen. The Saxon satirical poet, Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener, 1714-1771, mentioned this story in 1745 amongst other things in an essay on book printers’ stock. Whether the clever J. J. Kändler, 1706-1775, took this tale as the model for his monkey band or whether it was based on engravings or a painting and whether he intended it as a satire on courtly life has not been passed down to us.