Lot Essay
The example in the Nelte Collection, sold in these Rooms on 12th October 1995, lot 4, also has an impressed number 8.
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CIRCA 1756, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASE, PRESSNUMMER 8
Details
A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A POULTRY-SELLER FROM THE CRIS DE PARIS SERIES
CIRCA 1756, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASE, PRESSNUMMER 8
Modelled by P. Reinicke and J.J. Kändler, with his head turned to the right shouting to advertise his wares, wearing a black hat, a white jabot and shirt, yellow jacket, puce breeches and black clogs, with a basket of eggs over his right arm and a brace of fowl in his left hand, standing before a tree-stump on a scroll-moulded mound base enriched in gilding and applied with a flower and foliage (restoration to hat, basket handle and feet of fowl, one bird with wing lacking, areas of slight wear to enamels)
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high
CIRCA 1756, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASE, PRESSNUMMER 8
Modelled by P. Reinicke and J.J. Kändler, with his head turned to the right shouting to advertise his wares, wearing a black hat, a white jabot and shirt, yellow jacket, puce breeches and black clogs, with a basket of eggs over his right arm and a brace of fowl in his left hand, standing before a tree-stump on a scroll-moulded mound base enriched in gilding and applied with a flower and foliage (restoration to hat, basket handle and feet of fowl, one bird with wing lacking, areas of slight wear to enamels)
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.