Lot Essay
See Yvonne Adams, Meissen Figures 1730-1775 The Kaendler Years, Atglen, 2001, p. 163, No. 440 for another example of the vegetable seller decorated in reverse with pink bodice and turquoise skirt.
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CIRCA 1737-1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT THE BACK OF THE VEGETABLE SELLER AND TO THE UNDERSIDE OF THE APPLE SELLER, MODELLED BY JOHANN FRIEDRICH EBERLEIN
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A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A VEGETABLE AND AN APPLE SELLER
CIRCA 1737-1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT THE BACK OF THE VEGETABLE SELLER AND TO THE UNDERSIDE OF THE APPLE SELLER, MODELLED BY JOHANN FRIEDRICH EBERLEIN
She wearing a deeply down-turned brimmed hat, turquoise bodice and pink skirt, assorted vegetables held in her apron, parsnips in her right hand, he in turquoise hat, black bow tie and yellow short trousers, balancing a basket of apples against his right hip, both standing before tree-stumps on mound bases applied with flowerheads
7¼ (18.4 cm.) high, the apple seller (2)
CIRCA 1737-1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT THE BACK OF THE VEGETABLE SELLER AND TO THE UNDERSIDE OF THE APPLE SELLER, MODELLED BY JOHANN FRIEDRICH EBERLEIN
She wearing a deeply down-turned brimmed hat, turquoise bodice and pink skirt, assorted vegetables held in her apron, parsnips in her right hand, he in turquoise hat, black bow tie and yellow short trousers, balancing a basket of apples against his right hip, both standing before tree-stumps on mound bases applied with flowerheads
7¼ (18.4 cm.) high, the apple seller (2)
Provenance
with Len an Yvonne Adams, London (the vegetable seller)