"Affenkapelle des Grafen Brühl" – The Monkey Orchestra,
porcelain, polychromed and gilt, 22 items: conductor height: 18 cm, 1 music stand height: 9 cm, bass player height: 12,5 cm, drum carrier height: 14,5 cm, clarinettist height: 13,5 cm, trumpet player height: 13,5 cm, violinist height: 14 cm, singer height: 12 cm, bag piper height: 14,5 cm, French horn player height: 15,5 cm, singer height: 12,5 cm, transverse flutist height: 13,5 cm, drummer height: 14,5 cm, triangle height: 14 cm, singer height: 12,5 cm, drummer height: 14,5 cm, hurdy gurdy player height: 14,5 cm, guitarist height: 14 cm, bassoonist height: 14,5 cm, singer height: 13 cm, the musical director at the clavichord height: 13 cm, 1 harpist height: 12 cm, some minor restorations; Meissen, underglaze blue crossed swords ca. 1970, model by Johann Joachim Kändler ca. 1747 (Ru)
Lit.:
VEB Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen, This series of musical monkeys, modelled by Johann Joachim Kändler, 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.
Specialist: Ursula Rohringer
Ursula Rohringer
+43-1-515 60-382
ursula.rohringer@dorotheum.at
26.04.2018 - 15:00
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EUR 20,000.- to EUR 30,000.-
"Affenkapelle des Grafen Brühl" – The Monkey Orchestra,
porcelain, polychromed and gilt, 22 items: conductor height: 18 cm, 1 music stand height: 9 cm, bass player height: 12,5 cm, drum carrier height: 14,5 cm, clarinettist height: 13,5 cm, trumpet player height: 13,5 cm, violinist height: 14 cm, singer height: 12 cm, bag piper height: 14,5 cm, French horn player height: 15,5 cm, singer height: 12,5 cm, transverse flutist height: 13,5 cm, drummer height: 14,5 cm, triangle height: 14 cm, singer height: 12,5 cm, drummer height: 14,5 cm, hurdy gurdy player height: 14,5 cm, guitarist height: 14 cm, bassoonist height: 14,5 cm, singer height: 13 cm, the musical director at the clavichord height: 13 cm, 1 harpist height: 12 cm, some minor restorations; Meissen, underglaze blue crossed swords ca. 1970, model by Johann Joachim Kändler ca. 1747 (Ru)
Lit.:
VEB Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen, This series of musical monkeys, modelled by Johann Joachim Kändler, 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.
Specialist: Ursula Rohringer
Ursula Rohringer
+43-1-515 60-382
ursula.rohringer@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Works of Art - Furniture, Sculptures, Glass and Porcelain |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 26.04.2018 - 15:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 14.04. - 26.04.2018 |