A pair of Meissen Figures of Partridges, Circa 1745

Kändler's Taxa for 1740-48 records:

'1 Rebhuhn in Lebens Größe, als ein Gegner gegen ein schon gefertigtes Rephuhn. 3 Thlr', [One life-size partridge, as a pair to a partridge already completed. 3 Thlr.]  

Two similar examples, formerly in the Property from the Collection of Sir Gawaine and Lady Baillie, were sold at Replica Shoes 's London, May 1, 2013, lots 23 and 25. A similar pair is illustrated in Ulrich Pietsch, Meißner Porzellanplastik von Gottlieb Kirchner und Johann Joachim Kändler, p. 196, cat. nos. 304-305. Further examples were in the renowned pre-War Collections of Emma Budge, Hamburg, sold,Paul Graupe, Berlin, September 27-29, 1937, lot 776; Baron von Born, Budapest, sold, Rudolph Lepke’s Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, December 4, 1929, lots 9-10 and Gustav von Gerhardt , Budapest, Rudolph Lepke's, Berlin, November 7, 1911, lot 92.