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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A MILK-SELLER FROM THE 'CRIS DE ST. PETERSBURG' SERIES
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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A MILK-SELLER FROM THE 'CRIS DE ST. PETERSBURG' SERIES

CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AT BACK

Closed4 June 2013

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GBP 3,750

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A MILK-SELLER FROM THE 'CRIS DE ST. PETERSBURG' SERIES
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AT BACK
Modelled by P. Reinicke, standing holding a covered pail of milk on his head and a beaker in his outstretched right hand, wearing a black hat, a white coat with a brown belt, lilac breeches and black shoes, before a tree-stump on a mound base applied with flowers and foliage (restoration to hat, nose and tip of left little finger, chips to brim of beaker, three small chips to foliage)
6¼ in. (16 cm.) high

Specialist note

This series was loosely based on etchings after the drawings of Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, a student of Boucher, who recorded Russian life of the 18th century. At great personal risk, Le Prince travelled to Russia and made a series of drawings which he later etched. These etchings formed the basis of the Cris de St. Petersburg Series. For a similar example of the model see Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Meissen, Collection Franz E. Burda, Augsburg, 1997, p. 141, no. 64.