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CIRCA 1745, MODELLED BY J.J. KÄNDLER
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A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF WOODCUTTERS
Circa 1745, modelled by J.J. Kändler
Both wearing white shirts and blue breeches, one wielding an axe at a log in a black hat, the other sawing a log on an X-frame, seated on logs wearing a fur-trimmed yellow hat and smoking a pipe, both on mound bases
5¼in. (13.7cm.) high (2)
Circa 1745, modelled by J.J. Kändler
Both wearing white shirts and blue breeches, one wielding an axe at a log in a black hat, the other sawing a log on an X-frame, seated on logs wearing a fur-trimmed yellow hat and smoking a pipe, both on mound bases
5¼in. (13.7cm.) high (2)
Provenance
The Nyffeler Collection; Christie's, London, 9 June 1986, lot 64
Exhibited
Zurich, 1955, no. P33/P34
Sale room notice
The present lot was exhibited at the Kunsthaus, Zurich, 1955, Schonheit des 18 Jahrhunderts, Ny 23/24