A MEISSEN FIGURE OF AN ITINERANT LAUNDRYMAN modelled by J.J. Kändler, in black tricorn hat, brown jacket, light-brown apron, grey leggings and black shoes, with a cauldron over his right shoulder and standing before a tree-stump on a mound base applied with a flower and foliage (saucepan in his right hand lacking, restoration to cauldron and platform beside apron, his left arm and hand a restored replacement), blue crossed swords mark at back, circa 1745

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF AN ITINERANT LAUNDRYMAN modelled by J.J. Kändler, in black tricorn hat, brown jacket, light-brown apron, grey leggings and black shoes, with a cauldron over his right shoulder and standing before a tree-stump on a mound base applied with a flower and foliage (saucepan in his right hand lacking, restoration to cauldron and platform beside apron, his left arm and hand a restored replacement), blue crossed swords mark at back, circa 1745
19cm. high

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Inspired by a drawing by Edmé Bouchardon of the Cris de Paris series (1737-42)

Cf. the example sold in these Rooms on 1 December 1980, lot 272 and 5 December 1994, lot 141; see also Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures, p. 93

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