A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A FISH-SELLER after the original model by P. Reinicke standing with her hands on hips, carrying a tray of fish around her waist and with a bucket of fish in her right hand, wearing a white scarf, a puce jacket, striped scarf, green skirt and white apron, on a scroll-moulded base, Pressnummer 145Z, incised 60229, 5½in. (13.7cm.) high; and another of a cheese-seller carrying a wicker basket covered in a white cloth on her head and holding a shell in her right hand, wearing a green bodice, spotted fichu, striped and flowered skirt and a white apron, Pressnummer 126K, incised 60237, 6in. (15.3cm.) high, both with blue crossed swords mark, 20th Century (2)

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A FISH-SELLER after the original model by P. Reinicke standing with her hands on hips, carrying a tray of fish around her waist and with a bucket of fish in her right hand, wearing a white scarf, a puce jacket, striped scarf, green skirt and white apron, on a scroll-moulded base, Pressnummer 145Z, incised 60229, 5½in. (13.7cm.) high; and another of a cheese-seller carrying a wicker basket covered in a white cloth on her head and holding a shell in her right hand, wearing a green bodice, spotted fichu, striped and flowered skirt and a white apron, Pressnummer 126K, incised 60237, 6in. (15.3cm.) high, both with blue crossed swords mark, 20th Century (2)

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Cf. Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures, London, 1987, pps. 117 and 124 for the original figures of 1757 and a drawing of 'The Fishseller' by Christophe Hüet

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