Très rare castor en porcelaine blanche, Meissen, circa 1927 A very rare Meissen large white model of a beaver, circa 1927Urstück [Artist's Proof] No. 2 of 11 Modelled by Max Esser on a circular base inscribed 'M. Esser 1927', 50.5cm high; 59cm across, crossed swords mark and dot in underglaze-blue to edge of base, incised model number A.1180, impressed 136, impressed and incised 'VON 11 UR=/ STUECKEN Nr. 2' (fine haircrack around paw)FootnotesModelled by Esser in 1927 and also executed in bronze. In 1936, Esser produced a variation of the model in bronze with the beaver's tail curled to its side which was also produced in porcelain at the Berlin (KPM) manufactory under Max Adolf Pfeiffer from 1939 (Gronert 2020, I, p. 458).
Très rare castor en porcelaine blanche, Meissen, circa 1927 A very rare Meissen large white model of a beaver, circa 1927Urstück [Artist's Proof] No. 2 of 11 Modelled by Max Esser on a circular base inscribed 'M. Esser 1927', 50.5cm high; 59cm across, crossed swords mark and dot in underglaze-blue to edge of base, incised model number A.1180, impressed 136, impressed and incised 'VON 11 UR=/ STUECKEN Nr. 2' (fine haircrack around paw)FootnotesModelled by Esser in 1927 and also executed in bronze. In 1936, Esser produced a variation of the model in bronze with the beaver's tail curled to its side which was also produced in porcelain at the Berlin (KPM) manufactory under Max Adolf Pfeiffer from 1939 (Gronert 2020, I, p. 458).
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