Large animal sculpture "Paduan Rooster" from Meissen white porcelain. High, naturalistic base. A crowing cockerel with an elongated neck, open eyes and a wide-open beak with visible tongue, standing between sculpturally carved bundles of ears. Extremely lifelike plumage in relief with long, curved tail feathers. Designed by Ernst August Leuteritz (1854) after a model by Johann Joachim Kaendler (1732). Remainder; white mark. Centreboard mark. H. 77 cm. Augustus the Strong commissioned a series of animal sculptures for the royal collection in the Japanese Palace in Dresden in the early 1730s. Following in the footsteps of the modeller Johann Gottlieb Kirchner, J. J. Kaendler created a number of animal sculptures, some of them life-size, in the early days of his work at the Meissen manufactory in a decidedly naturalistic style with meticulous rendering of the animal's appearance and characteristic features. E. A. Leuteritz's extensive sculptural oeuvre includes animal sculptures based on models by Johann Joachim Kaendler from the 1850s, whereby he remained largely faithful to the original compositions. In addition to the "Paduaner Hahn" (around 1854), he created the "Ziege mit Jungen" and the "Truthahn". Cf. Albiker, cat. Meissen Porcelain Animals, no. 57/58; Pietsch, Meissen Porcelain Sculpture, no. 242, Staatl. Kunstsammlungen Dresden, inv. no. PE 18. A very large porcelain figure of a crowing Padovana rooster modelled by E. A. Leuteritz after J. J. Kaendler. Restored. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. 20th century.