modelling attributed to Johann Joachim Kändler (1706-1775), the snarling lioness seated on her haunches and with front legs raised, her cub nestled under her belly, flower encrusted base, underglaze blue crossed swords mark, 15.5cm long, restoration

Kändler's taxa document work on various lion figures in the 1740s; references to lion figures can be found in the inventory of the Dresden Hofkonditorei, as well as a further six figures recorded as belonging to Heinrich Graf von Brühl. This lioness model can also be found together with a lion figure to form an opposing pair, see Laurence S. Rockefeller Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 12 October 2005, lot 479 and Rainer Rückert, ‘Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810’, Munich, 1966, Nos.1058/59. Also see another of this model sold in these rooms, 22 May 2019, lot 289