CIRCA 1745

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF PEASANTS WITH GEESE
CIRCA 1745
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, with a farm-girl wearing a lace cap, yellow-edged white bodice and blue-striped white skirt, feeding a goose perched on a farm-boy's lap, the barefoot boy seated on a barrel, wearing a yellow hat, buff jacket and Lederhosen, a sack of grain and another goose in a basket at his feet, a chicken poking its head through a hole in the basket, on a shaped mound base applied with foliage (crack through base, barrel and boy's bottom, left goose's head restuck with restoration to neck, his left fingers, her little finger and his great toe restored, skirt and apron with two restored chips by her left thigh, bucket on her left arm lacking, foliage with chipping and flaking to enamel)
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high

Exhibited

Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Another example of this group was sold in these Rooms on 17th October 1977, lot 174. The Klemperer Collection group is illustrated by Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellansammlung Gustav von Klemperer (Dresden, 1928), no. 659, pl. 91.

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