Live Auction 7850Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A PIEDMONTESE BAGPIPER
Lot 63 VARIOUS PROPERTIES

A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A PIEDMONTESE BAGPIPER

CIRCA 1741-45, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

Closed10 June 2010

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A PIEDMONTESE BAGPIPER
CIRCA 1741-45, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Modelled by J.J. Kändler after an engraving by Jacques Dumont, wearing a plumed hat, white cape and an orange and yellow sleeveless coat, on a tree-stump base applied with flowers and foliage (broken through base, restored to brim of hat and extremities)
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high

Specialist note

Another example of this figure is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810 (Munich, 1966), p. 171, pl. 218, no. 893, and another by Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures (London, 1987), p. 54. An example was sold by Sotheby's London on 15 June 1965, lot 143, and another in these Rooms on 18 November 2008, lot 128.