A Meissen group of a chinese family

CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A Meissen group of a chinese family
Circa 1750, blue crossed swords mark
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, P. Reinicke, and F.E. Meyer, she in puce-lined yellow jacket and pink dress, one child on her knee holding a parasol, the other at her side, wearing flowered clothes seated on a tree-stump on a shaped mound base applied with flowers (restoration to her left arm at elbow, slight chip to top knot, restoration to top of head, right hand and sleeve of one child, the other child with restoration to left shoulder and back)
5½in. (14cm.) high

Lot Essay

Inspired by an engraving from the drawing by François Boucher entitled Les Délices de l'Enfance.

Cf. Len and Yvonne Adams, op. cit. (1987), pl. LII.

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