Lot Essay
Cf. Ingelore Menzhausen, op. cit. (1994), p. 178; see also Rainer Rückert, op. cit. (1966), pl. 218, no. 892.
CIRCA 1745
Details
A Meissen figure of a farmer going to market
Circa 1745
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, the bare foot man in black hat, white shirt and brown breeches, holding a lamb and with a basketwork pannier on his back with a cage of chickens, resting on a tree-stump on an oval base applied with flowers and foliage (restoration to hat, right strap and elbow and to lamb's legs, slight flaking to brown enamel)
6¾in. (17cm.) high
Circa 1745
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, the bare foot man in black hat, white shirt and brown breeches, holding a lamb and with a basketwork pannier on his back with a cage of chickens, resting on a tree-stump on an oval base applied with flowers and foliage (restoration to hat, right strap and elbow and to lamb's legs, slight flaking to brown enamel)
6¾in. (17cm.) high