A Meissen figure of a wet-nurse and a baby from the Cris de Paris

CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AT BACK AND IMPRESSED 26.

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A Meissen figure of a wet-nurse and a baby from the Cris de Paris
Circa 1750, blue crossed swords mark at back and impressed 26.
Modelled by P. Reinicke and J.J. Kändler with her hair tied in a white scarf, in a pink jacket, turquoise apron and tattered pale-yellow dress, holding her baby in a cradle before her, suspended from black straps from her shoulder, on a scroll-moulded pad base (restoration to right wrist and hand, straps and hood of cradle, fingers of left hand and left shoe)
5¾in. (14.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

For the example in the Klemperer Collection see Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellan Sammlung Gustav von Klemperer, no. 643; see also the example from the Jörg Nelte Collection sold in these Rooms on 12 October 1995, lot 2.

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