A MEISSEN GROUP OF 'COUNT BRÜHL'S TAILOR'S WIFE'

1740-1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK ON BASE, MODELLED BY J.F. EBERLEIN

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF 'COUNT BRÜHL'S TAILOR'S WIFE'
1740-1745, blue crossed swords mark on base, modelled by J.F. Eberlein
Seated side-saddle on a nanny-goat with a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes suckling at its mother's breast, the mother in black hat, green bodice, yellow skirt with indianische Blumen, white apron with iron-red flowers, the goat with black hair markings and with a kid feeding from her udder on mound base with applied flowers
7in. (18cm.) high

Provenance

Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 9 June 1986, lot 44

Exhibited

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Schonheit des 18 Jahrhunderts, 1955, no. P43

Lot Essay

Eberlein, August 1740: 'Schneiderfrau mit einem stillenden Kinde auf einer Ziege reitend, nebst einer jungen Ziege, die Saugel.'

Cf. Pauls Collections I, 346-347; also Rainer Rückert, Meissner Porzellan, Munich, 1966, no. 978, tafel 216

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