Lot Essay
Cf. for the female figure see Otto Walcha, op. cit., no. 121 in the Dresden Collection; Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, op. cit., no. 549 and 550
MEISSEN FIGURES
A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF PILGRIMS modelled by J. J. Kändler in blue clothes and with black capes moulded with white scallop-shells tied with red and blue bows, she with a striped red bodice and with elaborate gilt anthemion foliage and scrolls to the hem of her dress, he holding a staff, standing on square bases on waisted square pedestals moulded with gilt foliage and scrolls and with canted corners (restoration to his right arm, left hand, cuff and to edge of base at front, his staff a restored replacement, broken off pedestal and repaired, she with restoration to both hands at wrist, broken through waist and restored and broken off top of pedestal and restored, cracks through dress, some restorations to extremeties of both), circa 1745
Details
A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF PILGRIMS modelled by J. J. Kändler in blue clothes and with black capes moulded with white scallop-shells tied with red and blue bows, she with a striped red bodice and with elaborate gilt anthemion foliage and scrolls to the hem of her dress, he holding a staff, standing on square bases on waisted square pedestals moulded with gilt foliage and scrolls and with canted corners (restoration to his right arm, left hand, cuff and to edge of base at front, his staff a restored replacement, broken off pedestal and repaired, she with restoration to both hands at wrist, broken through waist and restored and broken off top of pedestal and restored, cracks through dress, some restorations to extremeties of both), circa 1745
29cm. and 27.5cm. high (2)
29cm. and 27.5cm. high (2)
Provenance
The Irwin Untermyer Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, sale Sotheby's, Monaco, 26 May 1980, lot 426
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, sale Sotheby's, Monaco, 26 May 1980, lot 426
Literature
Catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Masterpieces of European Porcelain", 1949, no. 273
Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and Other Continental Porcelain Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, fig. 31, pl. 28
Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and Other Continental Porcelain Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, fig. 31, pl. 28
Exhibited
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Masterpieces of European Porcelain", 1949