A Meissen figure of a Marmot girl from the Cris de Paris series

CIRCA 1755, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AT BACK, PRESSNUMMER 25

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A Meissen figure of a Marmot girl from the Cris de Paris series
Circa 1755, blue crossed swords mark at back, Pressnummer 25
Modelled by P. Reinicke after the original drawings by Christophe Huet, wearing a white headscarf, pale-puce over-garment and pale-yellow skirt, showing a marmot in a box, her staff resting against her shoulder, standing before rocks on a gilt scroll-moulded mound base (broken through the waist and restuck, restoration to marmot, box lid and strap, upper part of staff a restored replacement)
5.5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) high

拍品專文

The marmot, an animal similar to a hare and found in the French Alps, was not for sale and was shown in return for payment as a curiosity.

Cf. Len and Yvonne Adams, op. cit. (1987), p. 106 for a similar model.