21 items: guitarist height 14 cm, flute-player height 13.5 cm, hurdy-gurdy player height 14 cm, clarinetist height 13.5 cm, double bass player height 12.5 cm, triangle player height 14 cm, bugle player height 15 cm, pianist height 13.5 cm, trumpeter height 13.5 cm, harpist height 13 cm, violinst height 13.5 cm, bagpipes player height 14.5 cm, drummer with pipe height 16 cm, singer height 13 cm, singer height 12 cm, singer height 12.5 cm, singer height 13.5 cm, bassoon player height 14.5 cm, kettle drum player and carrier height 14 cm, 13.5 cm, ensemble conductor height 17.5 cm, music stand height 9 cm, porcelain, polychrome and gilt group, gilt-accented rocailles bases, 1 guitar knob chipped, glued parts to bow of violin, Meissen, underglaze blue sword mark circa 1960, model by J. J. Kändler circa 1747 (Ru)

Johann Joachim Kändler produced 23 monkeys circa 1747, reworking them circa 1765 at Meissen with the model maker, Peter Reinicke. The Saxon satirical poet, Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener, 1714–1771, mentioned this fable in 1745 in his ‘Abhandlung von Buchdruckerstöcken’. Whether the gifted J. J. Kändler, 1706–1775, used this tale, or engravings or the painting as the models for his Monkey Ensemble, or whether he just wished to caricature courtly life, has not survived for posterity.