PROPERTY OF A LADY

A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A TRINKET-SELLER FROM THE PARIS STREET TRADER SERIES

CIRCA 1750

Details

A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A TRINKET-SELLER FROM THE PARIS STREET TRADER SERIES
CIRCA 1750
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, his left arm supporting a tray of trinkets and holding his tricorn hat, a pack of drawers behind him
7 ¼ in. (18.3 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The present model is after an engraving by Edmé Bouchardon. See note to lot 328 for further information about this series of figures. For a similar figure, illustrated with Bouchardon's original drawing, see Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures, London, 1987, p. 98.

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