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THREE MEISSEN FIGURES OF SOLDIERS
Lot 48

THREE MEISSEN FIGURES OF SOLDIERS

CIRCA 1745-50, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO BACKS OF BASES

Closed3 June 2015

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GBP 4,750

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THREE MEISSEN FIGURES OF SOLDIERS
CIRCA 1745-50, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO BACKS OF BASES
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, each standing before a tree-stump on a mound base, comprising: two examples with the butt of his musket on the ground, his right hand holding the barrel, and the third holding a lance in his right hand and a pistol slung over his shoulder (the third with restored right arm, hand and lance, minor chips)
4 7/8 in. (12.3 cm.) high

Specialist note

See Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich, 1966, pl. 226 and p. 176 for examples of both models in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich; no. 933 (for the pair) is described by the author as an Austrian fusilier and 932 (the single figure) as an Austrian underofficer. See also Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures, London, 1987, p. 41 for a set of eight soldiers belonging to the same group, including the same models as those in the present lot.