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Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen représentant un carlin gisant, vers 1740 A Meissen model of a recumbent pug dog, circa 1740 image 1
Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen représentant un carlin gisant, vers 1740 A Meissen model of a recumbent pug dog, circa 1740 image 2
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Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen représentant un carlin gisant, vers 1740

A Meissen model of a recumbent pug dog, circa 1740

29 October 2025, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche

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Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen représentant un carlin gisant, vers 1740

A Meissen model of a recumbent pug dog, circa 1740


Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, his head turned towards the rear, wearing a a purple collar and bow with incised scrollwork, the coat coloured in pale brown and black, 8cm across, impressed numeral 50 (minor restoration)

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Probably one of several small models of pug dogs originally modelled by Kaendler in May 1734 and recorded in his work notes, which include a pug "wie er lieget und sich umsiehet' [he lays and looks around him]; see R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, 1966, no. 1087, for a similar model in the Ansbach Residence.

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