A Meissen group of the Spanish lovers
A Meissen group of the Spanish lovers

CIRCA 1741, THE DECORATION POSSIBLY VERY SLIGHTLY LATER

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A Meissen group of the Spanish lovers
Circa 1741, the decoration possibly very slightly later
Modelled by J.J. Kndler, he in an iron-red flowered jacket, white cloak, black ruff, breeches and shoes, a yellow gilt-edged hat under his left arm, she in a feathered hat, turquoise and black bodice with puce bows, white gilt-edged skirt and a flowered pink overskirt, he holding her left hand and gazing into her eyes, standing on an oval mound base applied with coloured flowers and foliage (extended firing crack through base and skirt, section of cloak with crack, restoration to her hat and their left hands, flaking to bodice with overpainting, slight wear to gilding and chipping to flowers and foliage)
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high

拍品專文

Cf. Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century (1972), vol. 1, pp. 202-203, and a similar group sold in these Rooms on 27 April 1998, lot 205.