Lot 428
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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A MAP SELLER [CRIS DE PARIS]
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A MAP SELLER [CRIS DE PARIS]

CIRCA 1745, MODELLED BY J.J. KÄNDLER

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A MAP SELLER [CRIS DE PARIS]
Circa 1745, modelled by J.J. Kändler
The figure modeled starting forward wearing a black hat, pale pink jacket, pale yellow shirt, green breeches and black stockings and shoes, a small cabinet with drawers on his back as a backpack, holding a rolled map in his left, an unfurled map of Germany in his right
6 5/8in. (16.8cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures, London, 1987, p. 108, fig. 108 for a similar tradesman displaying a map of Italy and based on the original drawings by Bouchardon; also see The Property of a Lady, from the Collection formed by Stanley Ungar, 23 April 1998, lot 243 for other examples which vary in colouration.

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