CIRCA 1753, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

Princess Marie Zepherine de Bourbon (1750-1755) was the eldest daughter of Louis, Dauphin of France (1729-1765) and Maria Josepha of Saxony (1731-1767). Kndler also modelled a bust of her brother, Prince Louis Charles de Bourbon (1751-1761), and Augustus III stipulated that both of these busts should have blue eyes. The parents never recovered from the loss of their children; the young prince, in particular, was idolised by both his parents and grandparents. See Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures (London, 1987), p. 24 and the similar example sold in these Rooms on 28 March 1977, lot 135 (part), and the example from the Nyffeler Collection sold on 9 June 1986, lot 85.