A MEISSEN FIGURE OF HARLEQUIN WITH A BIRDCAGE after the model by J.J. Kändler in pale-yellow hat with red rosette, white jacket, lilac pantaloons and shoes, seated beside a pierced rectangular cage holding a white dove aloft, on a shaped rockwork base applied with coloured flowers (minute chip to bird and cage), blue crossed swords mark, circa 1750
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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF HARLEQUIN WITH A BIRDCAGE after the model by J.J. Kändler in pale-yellow hat with red rosette, white jacket, lilac pantaloons and shoes, seated beside a pierced rectangular cage holding a white dove aloft, on a shaped rockwork base applied with coloured flowers (minute chip to bird and cage), blue crossed swords mark, circa 1750
13cm. high
Lot Essay
Cf. the example sold in these Rooms, 25 February 1991, lot 106; see also Hermann Jedding Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts im Hamburger Privatbesitz, no. 217