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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A NUN
Lot 660 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A NUN

CIRCA 1745, INCISED 50 TO UNDERSIDE OF BASE

Closed31 May 2012

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GBP 1,250

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A NUN
CIRCA 1745, INCISED 50 TO UNDERSIDE OF BASE
Modelled by J.F. Eberlein, seated and reading her gold-ground psalter, wearing a white cowl with red star ornament and black and white habit, on a rockwork base (her right hand with chips to two finger tips, small flat chip to edge of cowl, extended firing cracks to lower body, minor chipping to base)
5½ in. (14 cm.) high

Specialist note

Another example was sold at Christie's, London, 6 March 1995, lot 148. See Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, 1710-1810, Munich, 1966, no. 976, for an example in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich.