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Two Meissen models of a cockatoo and a vulture, circa 1904-1908

18 June 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Two Meissen models of a cockatoo and a vulture, circa 1904-1908

Both modelled by Paul Walther, the cockatoo in pale yellow and white perched upright on a stylised tree stump, the vulture in brown and grey seated on rockwork, 28.5cm high, crossed swords marks in blue, various impressed numerals, incised model number Y.117 and painter's numeral 5 to cockatoo (minor restoration to beak and comb) (2)

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Modelled by Walther in 1904 and 1908, see S. & T. Bergmann, Meissener Künstler-Figuren (2010), cat. nos. 786 and 804.

Paul Walther (1876-1933) attended the drawing school of the Meissen factory and became a modeller in 1906.

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