Porcelain figure of a woodpecker with an open black beak, a black and iron-red head, a yellow breast, a green back and tail, and black wing and tail tips, perched on a tree stump mottled in shades of brown and yellow, and applied with colorful florettes and green and turquoise leaves.

Figure of a Woodpecker

Modeled by Johann Joachim Kaendler, Royal Porcelain Manufactory Meissen

About 1735-1740

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Plaster cast of the New Year's card with a view of the Monastery St. Geron in Cologne.
Ladies’ covered paint box of light blue and white jasperware, oval in shape, the main body with stippled ground and decorated in relief with scenes from “Setting Out on the Hunt,” “Bringing Home the Game,” and “The Arts,” with groups of putti with dogs and hunting accoutrements, carrying game, and playing instruments, the slightly domed cover with acanthus border and sunflower finial with applied leaves against stippled ground; the interior outfitted with a blue jasper holder with twelve holes to hold paint cups and fourteen small white jasper paint cups.
Highly polished, head faces left
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