A MEISSEN FIGURE OF AN APPLE SELLER from the Cris de Paris series, after the model by J.J.Kändler, the old lady in a white scarf and blouse, yellow and black bodice, white skirt and brown apron, standing leaning forwards offering two yellow apples from the basket over her left arm, on a mound base applied with flowers and leaves (restoration to her right lower arm and hand, handle of basket, minor chips to leaves), circa 1745

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF AN APPLE SELLER from the Cris de Paris series, after the model by J.J.Kändler, the old lady in a white scarf and blouse, yellow and black bodice, white skirt and brown apron, standing leaning forwards offering two yellow apples from the basket over her left arm, on a mound base applied with flowers and leaves (restoration to her right lower arm and hand, handle of basket, minor chips to leaves), circa 1745
18cm. high

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Taken from the series of engravings by Edme Bouchardon of the Cris de Paris

Cf. Hermann Jedding, Meissener Porzellan des 18 Jahrhunderts in Hamburger Privatbesitz, no. 226

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