A MEISSEN MONKEY-EWER AND COVER CIRCA 1738-40 Modelled by J.J. Kändler as a female monkey with her young, each with brownish grey coats, incised white chests and throats, pale-pink muzzles, forearms and feet, the mother wearing a gilt-buckled black belt above her hind legs, holding one of her young before her, its head tilted back and mouth open to form the spout, another young monkey forming the handle by clambering on her back, with a similar belt and holding a white fruit disguising the pierced top, the fruit cover with green foliage, on an oval plinth base (spout monkey with minute chipping to ears and mouth, mother with two right toes restored, cover with some restoration to foliage and rim partially ground) 7¾ in. (19.8 cm.) high
A MEISSEN MONKEY-EWER AND COVER CIRCA 1738-40 Modelled by J.J. Kändler as a female monkey with her young, each with brownish grey coats, incised white chests and throats, pale-pink muzzles, forearms and feet, the mother wearing a gilt-buckled black belt above her hind legs, holding one of her young before her, its head tilted back and mouth open to form the spout, another young monkey forming the handle by clambering on her back, with a similar belt and holding a white fruit disguising the pierced top, the fruit cover with green foliage, on an oval plinth base (spout monkey with minute chipping to ears and mouth, mother with two right toes restored, cover with some restoration to foliage and rim partially ground) 7¾ in. (19.8 cm.) high
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