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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF AN EGG-SELLER
Lot 659 VARIOUS PROPERTIES

A MEISSEN FIGURE OF AN EGG-SELLER

CIRCA 1744, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS

Closed31 May 2012

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GBP 2,500

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF AN EGG-SELLER
CIRCA 1744, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS
Modelled by J.J. Kaendler as an old woman carrying a basket of eggs across her left arm, wearing a brown apron and green skirt, on a shaped grassy base (left fingers restored, item in right hand restored, chipping to footrim)
7 in. (17.9 cm.) high

Specialist note

See the similar figure selling fruit, after Bouchardon's 'Cris de Paris' drawings, illustrated by Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century, London, 1972, Vol. I, pp. 86-87.