A MEISSEN GROUP OF A SHEPHERDESS AND COMPANION
Lot 646 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

A MEISSEN GROUP OF A SHEPHERDESS AND COMPANION

CIRCA 1745, TRACES OF BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

Closed31 May 2012

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GBP 3,500

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF A SHEPHERDESS AND COMPANION
CIRCA 1745, TRACES OF BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, with a shepherdess seated playing the lute, wearing a yellow hat and white dress with blue flowers, her companion standing beside her offering her bunches of forget-me-nots, wearing a white jacket, purple breeches and carrying a turquoise hat under his left arm, a recumbent sheep at their feet, all before a leafy tree-stump, the base applied with flowers and foliage (chip to upper branch of tree-stump, small chip to corner of his jacket and one finger, small chips to flowers and foliage on base)
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a similar model see Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century, London, 1972, Vol. I, p. 245. Kaendler's Taxa records the group as 'a small group with a shepherdess sitting on a grassy base playing the lute, a shepherd stands beside her, presenting her with a forget-me-not'.