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23 Johann Joachim Kändler Fauna, flora and porcelain – the great passions of the Saxon Elector Augustus the Strong – are combined in these two items. Between 1731 and 1733, the Elector commissioned an African expedition to pro- cure exotic animals for the court menagerie as well as specimens for the natural history collections. One of his ambitious projects was creating the Japanese Palace on the banks of the Elbe in Dresden. Intended to house the monarch’s collection of Asian porcelain, he also commissioned large quantities of Meissen porcelain to be exhibited there. The royal desire to reproduce hundreds of life-sized porcelain animals and birds turned out to be a technical challenge for the manufactory and its modelers. During more than 20 years, Johann Joachim Kändler created nearly 40 different birds. The first models of the Eurasian oriole with bright yellow plumage and black wings were in- itially produced in the early 1730s exclusively for the Japanese Palace, before being adapted and manufac- tured for wider commercial sale in the 1740s. Two models of orioles with gilt bronze mounts. Meissen, the models by Johann Joachim Kändler from 1733/34. H 25.5 cm (28.5 cm). Sold for CHF 103 000 Offices & representatives Specialists SWISS ART Cyril Koller koller@kollerauctions.com IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART Cyril Koller jara.koller@kollerauctions.com POSTWAR & CONTEMPORARY PRINTS & MULTIPLES Silke Stahlschmidt stahlschmidt@kollerauctions.com PHOTOGRAPHY Gabriel Müller mueller@kollerauctions.com FINE FURNITURE Stephan Koller skoller@kollerauctions.com MEDIEVAL SCULPTURE Stephan Koller skoller@kollerauctions.com ASIAN ART Regi Preiswerk asianart@kollerauctions.com OLD MASTER & 19 TH CENTURY PAINTINGS Karoline Weser weser@kollerauctions.com OLD MASTER PRINTS & DRAWINGS Franz-Carl Diegelmann diegelmann@kollerauctions.com EUROPEAN PORCELAIN & CERAMICS Sabine Neumaier neumaier@kollerauctions.com SILVER Corinne Koller ckoller@kollerauctions.com DESIGN Cyril Himmer himmer@kollerauctions.com VINTAGE FASHION Jara Koller jara.koller@kollerauctions.com BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS & AUTOGRAPHS Dr Andreas Terwey terwey@kollerauctions.com ART NOUVEAU & ART DECO CARPETS Jean-Pierre Dalla Vedova dallavedova@kollerauctions.com JEWELLERY Carla Süssli suessli@kollerauctions.com WATCHES Uwe Vischer vischer@kollerauctions.com WINE Koller Geneva geneva@kollerauctions.com KOLLER ZURICH Hardturmstrasse 102 8031 Zurich Switzerland T +41 44 445 63 63 office@kollerauctions.com DÜSSELDORF Ulrike Gruben Citadellstrasse 4 40213 Düsseldorf Germany T +49 211 30 14 36 38 M +49 175 586 38 64 duesseldorf@kollerauctions.com KOLLER GENEVA Rue de l’Athénée 2 1205 Geneva Switzerland T +41 22 311 03 85 geneva@kollerauctions.com MUNICH Fiona Seidler Maximiliansplatz 20 80333 Munich Germany T +49 89 22 802 766 M +49 177 257 63 98 muenchen@kollerauctions.com ITALY Luigi Pesce Via Cairoli 18 16124 Genova, Italy T +39 339 596 27 68 italia@kollerauctions.com BEIJING Jing Li Chedaogou 10# 6/4-307 Haidian Qu 100089 Beijing China T +86 135 2039 8057 beijing@kollerauctions.com