porcelain, colour and gold paint, twenty-two items: one conductor height 18 cm, one desk height 9 cm, one bass fiddler height 12.5 cm, one timbal carrier height 14 cm, one clarinet height 13.5 cm, one trumpeter height 14 cm, one violinist height 13.5 cm, one singer height 12.5 cm, one bag pipe player height 14.5 cm, one French hornist height 15.5 cm, one singer height 13 cm, one flautist height 13 cm, one timpanist height 13.5 cm, one triangle player height 14 cm, one singer height 12.5 cm, one drummer height 15.5 cm, one hurdy-gurdy player height 14.5 cm, one guitar height 15 cm, one singer height 12.5 cm, one trombone player height 14.5 cm, one principal on the clavicord height 13.6 cm, one female harp player height 12 cm, Meißen, underglaze blue sword mark around 1970, model by Johann Joachim Kändler around 1747 (Ru)

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VEB Staatliche Porzellan Manufaktur Meissen, the series of monkeys making music modelled by Johann Joachim Kändler around 1750. The male monkeys are portrayed as musicians, the female monkeys as singers. The monkey orchestra was renewed and added to by Peter Reinicke in 1765. According to historical legend they are supposed to depict the orchestra of Count Brühl.