Live Auction 7815White Gold 18th Century Porcelain from Meissen and Du Paquier Property of The Byrnes Children Trust
Christie’s roundel
Lot 90

A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A DRUNKEN PEASANT

CIRCA 1740, INDISTINCT PRESSNUMMER 50 THREE TIMES TO BASE

Closed12 May 2010

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GBP 27,500

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A DRUNKEN PEASANT
CIRCA 1740, INDISTINCT PRESSNUMMER 50 THREE TIMES TO BASE
Modelled by J.J. Kändler with his left arm raised to his black hat, a tankard of ale in his right hand, wearing a yellow-lined turquoise jacket, black braces, white shirt, red breeches with yellow florettes and black shoes, dancing before a tree-stump on a mound base (minor flaking to yellow enamel, minute chipping to brim of hat and yellow rosette on elbow)
6¾ in. (17 cm.) high

Henry Duveen, London
The Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's New York, 8th December 1989, lot 21

Specialist note

Yvonne Hackenbroch notes that a dated example of this figure from the Schwarz Collection was sold by Hugo Helbing, Frankfurt, on 21st May 1935, lot 282 (with 1736 on the tankard), see Hackenbroch, Meissen and Other Continental Porcelain, Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection (London, 1956), p. 101. A similar figure is illustrated by R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), pl. 217, no. 890. The example from the Jörg Nelte Collection was sold by Sotheby's, London, on 17th June 1997, lot 133.