A Meissen figure of Count Brhl's tailor

CIRCA 1740-5, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A Meissen figure of Count Brhl's tailor
Circa 1740-5, blue crossed swords mark
Modelled by J.J. Kndler, wearing a black tricorn hat and a long pale-yellow coat with indianische Blumen, seated astride a billygoat, the tools of his trade all about him, two kids in a bucket strapped to his back, on a rectangular mound base applied with coloured flowers and foliage (tailor's right hand, shears, left thumb and section of goat's horn lacking, other horn probably a restored replacement, base with crack and very small restorations to outer foliage)
8 in. (20.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's, 11 March 1996, lot 251.

Lot Essay

Kndler's Taxa, November 1740: 'Schneider, welcher auf einem Ziegenbock reutet, wie er seinen ganzen werkzeug bei sich fhret'.

Cf. Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, op. cit. (1972), Vol. I, nos. 346-7; and Rainer Rckert, op. cit. (1966), no. 885, and also see Len and Yvonne Adams, op. cit. (London 1987), p. 192 for a related but slightly different version of this model.

A similar example from the Nyffeler Collection was sold in these Rooms, 9 June 1986, lot 43.

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