A MEISSEN PASTILLE-BURNER MODELLED AS A CHINAMAN after the model by J.F. Eberlein, with a black moustache and pierced mouth, in a black hat, purple and iron-red patterned robe lined in turquoise and turquoise shoes, seated cross-legged talking to a monkey perched on his right knee and feeding it with an apple, on a yellow cushion with gilt tassels and a shaped stepped plinth with gilt bands and a leaf disguising a firing crack (chips to hat and four very slight chips to footrim), blue crossed swords mark, circa 1735

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A MEISSEN PASTILLE-BURNER MODELLED AS A CHINAMAN after the model by J.F. Eberlein, with a black moustache and pierced mouth, in a black hat, purple and iron-red patterned robe lined in turquoise and turquoise shoes, seated cross-legged talking to a monkey perched on his right knee and feeding it with an apple, on a yellow cushion with gilt tassels and a shaped stepped plinth with gilt bands and a leaf disguising a firing crack (chips to hat and four very slight chips to footrim), blue crossed swords mark, circa 1735
15.5cm. high

Lot Essay

This figure is recorded in December 1735 as Ein Pagott mit einem Affen von Thon bossiert

Cf. Dr. Erika Pauls Eisenbeiss, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 76-77; Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer, Meissener Porzellan, no. 32

The pendant to this was sold at Christie's Geneva, 8 May 1989, lot 28

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