A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A POULTRY-PLUCKER FROM THE ‘CRIS DE PARIS' SERIES

CIRCA 1755, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASE, INCISED 28 (?)

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A POULTRY-PLUCKER FROM THE ‘CRIS DE PARIS' SERIES
CIRCA 1755, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASE, INCISED 28 (?)
Modelled by P. Reinicke, standing beside a basket of feathers and plucking a hen, on a scroll-moulded mound base enriched in gilding (hen's beak and feather in his left hand chipped, minor chipping to feathers in basket and leaves on base)
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high

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The Meissen ‘Cris de Paris’ series of street-vendors was modelled by P. Reinicke and overseen by J.J. Kändler after a series of drawings produced by Christophe Hüet in 1753. Work began in 1753-4 and it became the most extensive series made at the Meissen manufactory. For another example of this figure see Martin Eberle, Cris de Paris Meissener Porzellanfiguren des 18. Jahrhunderts, Leipzig, 2001, p. 88, no. 30.

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