A Meissen figure of a Drunken Peasant

CIRCA 1740, THE DECORATION PERHAPS LATER

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A Meissen figure of a Drunken Peasant
Circa 1740, the decoration perhaps later
Modelled by J.J. Kändler vigorously dancing with his left arm raised to his black hat, a mug of ale in his right hand, in green jacket, white shirt, pink breeches with yellow ribbons and black shoes with yellow rosettes, before a tree-stump with his left leg raised on a mound base applied with coloured flowers (slight restoration to back and hem of jacket, slight chips to flowers and foliage)
6¾in. (17cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellansammlung Gustav von Klemperer, no. 562; Yvonne Hackenbroch, op. cit., pl. 44, no. 91; similar examples were sold in these Rooms on 20 February 1969, lot 101 and 1 March 1993, lot 226.

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