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CIRCA 1755, BOTH WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS AT BACK, THE FIRST WITH INCISED 17., THE SECOND WITH INCISED 27
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TWO MEISSEN FIGURES FROM THE CRIS DE PARIS SERIES, THE NIGHT-WATCHMAN AND THE PEEP-SHOW MAN
CIRCA 1755, BOTH WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS AT BACK, THE FIRST WITH INCISED 17., THE SECOND WITH INCISED 27
Modelled by P. Reinicke and J.J. Kändler after drawings by Christophe Huet, in turquoise, yellow and puce clothes, white stockings and black shoes, the night-watchman in a black tricorn hat and with a basket of bottles over his left arm, the other in a black hat, with a peep-show box strapped to his back and winding the handle of a music box, both on gilt scroll-moulded tree-stump bases applied with flowers and foliage (the first with porcelain replacement hands, broken through tree-stump and left leg and repaired, restoration to hat, right foot, waistcoat and back of cloak, necks and stoppers of two bottles lacking, the second broken through tree-stump and legs and repaired, right and left foot replacements, chip to hat)
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high (2)
CIRCA 1755, BOTH WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS AT BACK, THE FIRST WITH INCISED 17., THE SECOND WITH INCISED 27
Modelled by P. Reinicke and J.J. Kändler after drawings by Christophe Huet, in turquoise, yellow and puce clothes, white stockings and black shoes, the night-watchman in a black tricorn hat and with a basket of bottles over his left arm, the other in a black hat, with a peep-show box strapped to his back and winding the handle of a music box, both on gilt scroll-moulded tree-stump bases applied with flowers and foliage (the first with porcelain replacement hands, broken through tree-stump and left leg and repaired, restoration to hat, right foot, waistcoat and back of cloak, necks and stoppers of two bottles lacking, the second broken through tree-stump and legs and repaired, right and left foot replacements, chip to hat)
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
The late Mrs Meyer Sassoon
By descent to the late Mrs Derek FitzGerald, of Heathfield Park, and by descent to the present owner.
By descent to the late Mrs Derek FitzGerald, of Heathfield Park, and by descent to the present owner.
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