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TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURES OF SEATED WOMEN
Lot 293 PROPERTY FROM THE MARIDON MUSEUM (LOTS 287-299)

TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURES OF SEATED WOMEN

LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, THE SECOND WITH DOUBLE INCISION AND PROBABLY OUTSIDE-DECORATED, INCISED MODEL NOS. E.58. AND 2685., BOTH IMPRESSED 43, AFTER MODELS BY M.V. ACIER AND J.J. KÄNDLER, RESPECTIVELY

Closed20 October 2011

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TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURES OF SEATED WOMEN
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, THE SECOND WITH DOUBLE INCISION AND PROBABLY OUTSIDE-DECORATED, INCISED MODEL NOS. E.58. AND 2685., BOTH IMPRESSED 43, AFTER MODELS BY M.V. ACIER AND J.J. KÄNDLER, RESPECTIVELY
The first modeled as a maid asleep in a chair, a love letter tucked at her bosom, her shoes kicked off; the second as a woman seated in a Louis XV style chair, a spinning wheel on a table at her side, on a rocaille-molded base
7 3/8 in. (81.7 cm.) high, the first (2)

Specialist note

For an example of the spinning wheel figure in the collection of the Hermitage and for the engraving dedicated to Madame La Comtesse de Tessin (Les Amusements de la vie Privée) upon which it is based, see K. Butler, Meissner Porzellanplatik des 18. Jahrhunderts die Sammlung die Ermitage, Leningrad, 1977, pl. IX and 211.