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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF THE GOOD HOUSEWIFE
Lot 124

A MEISSEN FIGURE OF THE GOOD HOUSEWIFE

CIRCA 1757-58, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

Closed28 November 2012

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF THE GOOD HOUSEWIFE
CIRCA 1757-58, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, seated at a table writing in an account book, a snuff-box in her left hand, in a white hat with a puce ribbon, a flowered-jacket and yellow skirt, a desk-set with writing implements, a bell and scissors on the table, the table and chair with cabriole legs enriched in gilding, at her feet a wicker basket filled with bottles and various tied packages under the table, on a scroll-moulded mound base enriched in gilding (hairline crack to book on her lap and to underside of base)
6¾ in. (17.2 cm.) high

'The Comte Alberic du Chastel de la Howarderie'; sale Christie's, London, 11 October 1976, lot 111.
With Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, Kunsthandel, Munich.

Specialist note

This figure is derived from an engraving by J.P Le Bas (1707-83) which was published in 1754 and which was after a painting by Chardin. For an illustration of the engraving see W.B. Honey, Dresden China, London, 1934, p. 119, pl. LI (a). See also Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century, London, 1972, Vol. I, p. 98 for a similar figure and details of comparable examples.