CIRCA 1745-50, EACH WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS AT THE BACK; THE VIOLINIST WITH IMPRESSED MODEL NO. 10. TO THE BACK, MODELED BY P. REINICKE; SHE INCISED 10, MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER

The female figure is based on prints after Marcellus Laroon in the ‘Cryes of the city of London’, published in 1711. The fashionably dressed ‘courtesan’ is a prostitute who in the character of ‘Mrs Russell’ haunted the streets along with her companion, the Squire of Alsatia. See Y. Adams, Meissen Figures, 1730-1775 The Kaendler Period, Atglen, 2001, p. 45, no. 100 for a reproduction of the Laroon engraving.