Fourteen Assembled Meissen Porcelain Monkey Band Figures

Description:

Fourteen Assembled Meissen Porcelain Monkey Band Figures, Saxony, 19th and 20th century, each polychrome enamel- and gilt-decorated, with crossed swords and other various marks, three choral singers, keyboardist, harpist, cellist, hurdy-gurdy player, bagpiper, flutist, drummer, mandolinist, violinist, clarinetist, and bassoonist, ht. 4 3/4 to 5 3/4 in.; together with a Meissen-type conductor, flutist, clarinetist, choral singer, and five music stands.
Estimate $10,000-15,000

Keyboardist with loss to restored leg and with restored tail. One singer with restoration and loss to chair leg and restoration to foot and arm. Flutist with restored flute. Bagpiper with restoration to hat. Mandolinist with restoration to mandolin, shoulder, foot, hat brim, and feathers in hat. Cellist with heavy restorations to cello, bow, foot, and hat. Conductor with restoration to baton and hand. Meissen-type clarinetist with repair to clarinet. Meissen-type singer with loss to fingers. One singer with restored foot. Clarinetist with loss to clarinet. One singer with loss to fingers. Drummer lacking drum stick and with break to tail. Bassoon with repaired break. Violin with repaired break to neck. All with scattered loss/flakes to gilt and enamel.


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