Lot Essay
Cf. K. Berling, Meissen China, an illustrated history (New York 1972), p.100-101, fig. 266 Q180
FIRST HALF 20TH CENTURY, MARKED WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE CROSSED SWORDS, PRESSNUMMERN 107 AND Q180
Details
A Meissen figure of a young lady playing at bowls
First half 20th century, marked with underglaze blue crossed swords, Pressnummern 107 and Q180
(Kugelspielerin) after a model by Walther Schott, gilt and painted in colours, naturalistically modelled in relief as a girl bending down, holding a gold ball in her right hand, the other hand behind her back, wearing a light-green drape, standing before a tree trunk on a circular base moulded with a meandering band (one hand damaged)
37cm high
First half 20th century, marked with underglaze blue crossed swords, Pressnummern 107 and Q180
(Kugelspielerin) after a model by Walther Schott, gilt and painted in colours, naturalistically modelled in relief as a girl bending down, holding a gold ball in her right hand, the other hand behind her back, wearing a light-green drape, standing before a tree trunk on a circular base moulded with a meandering band (one hand damaged)
37cm high
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