CIRCA 1750
Details
A Meissen figure of a shepherdess playing the clarinet
Circa 1750
Probably modelled by F.E. Meyer and J.J. Kändler, in Chinoiserie dress of a cowl, pale-yellow frock-coat with short flared sleeves, her skirt painted with indianische Blumen and yellow shoes with puce ribbons, standing before a tree-stump on a scroll-moulded base applied with flowers and foliage and with a sheep at her feet (restoration to hands, arms, recorder, one sleeve, tree-stump and foliage, sheep with one ear lacking, small chips to extremities), blue crossed swords mark at back
9 5/8in. (24.5cm.) high
Circa 1750
Probably modelled by F.E. Meyer and J.J. Kändler, in Chinoiserie dress of a cowl, pale-yellow frock-coat with short flared sleeves, her skirt painted with indianische Blumen and yellow shoes with puce ribbons, standing before a tree-stump on a scroll-moulded base applied with flowers and foliage and with a sheep at her feet (restoration to hands, arms, recorder, one sleeve, tree-stump and foliage, sheep with one ear lacking, small chips to extremities), blue crossed swords mark at back
9 5/8in. (24.5cm.) high
Provenance
Anon., sale Christie's, 6 April 1981, lot 196.