CIRCA 1746, FEMALE FIGURE WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT BACK

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF VEGETABLE-SELLERS
CIRCA 1746, FEMALE FIGURE WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT BACK
Modelled by J.F. Eberlein, wearing pale yellow, brown, green and white clothes, the male figure with a basket of vegetables supported on a tree-stump at his side, the girl with vegetables in her apron, both standing on mound bases applied with flowers and foliage (the first damages and restoration to fingers and toes, some chipping to extremities and grinding to edge of base, girl with some chipping to vegetables and foliage)
7½ in. (19 cm.) and 7 in. (18 cm.) high (2)

Exhibited

Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

A pair of these figures from the Collection of the Marquess of Exeter were sold in these Rooms on 13th July 1959, lot 38, and another pair were sold on 4th February 1980, lot 123. These models were imitated at Höchst, see Hugo Morley-Fletcher, 'The Pflueger Collection' Catalogue (London, 1993), Vol. I, p. 80.

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