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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A POTTER FROM THE ARTISAN SERIES
Lot 78 ANOTHER PROPERTY

A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A POTTER FROM THE ARTISAN SERIES

CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASE

Closed27 November 2013

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GBP 10,625

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A POTTER FROM THE ARTISAN SERIES
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASE
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, seated on a bench, a lump of clay on the potter's wheel before him, with a shelf supporting two pots beside him and another at his feet, barefoot, wearing a white shirt, a pink waistcoat, purple breeches and a yellow-lined red cloth hat, the mound base moulded with rococo scrolls enriched in puce, blue, yellow and gilding (very small retouched chip to rococo scroll on base, minute restored chip to left big toe)
7½ in. (19.1 cm.) high

Specialist note

For an illustration of this model of a potter see Otto Walcha, Meissner Porzellan, Dresden, 1973, pl. 108 and also see the example formerly in the collection of Emma Budge, Hamburg, sold by Paul Graupe, Berlin on 27-29 September 1937, lot 827 (including seven other models from the series), pl. 131, h. Examples of a seamstress, a coppersmith and a butcher from the Collection of Patricia Hart were sold in these Rooms on 27 November 2012, lots 119-121.