Lot Essay
Cf. Len and Yvonne Adams, op. cit. (1987), pl. XXI.
CIRCA 1755, THE ORMOLU MOUNT 19TH CENTURY
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A Meissen ormolu-mounted group of cherry-pickers
Circa 1755, the ormolu mount 19th century
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, as a gallant, a lady and a boy about a cherry tree gathering cherries from a boy balanced in the tree picking the fruit, in coloured and flowered clothes, the gallant seated with a tricorn hat under his right arm and holding a cherry in his left hand before a wicker-basket of fruit, she standing holding out her fruit- filled apron, the boy seated behind eating cherries from his hat, on a scroll-moulded mound base applied with flowers and foliage and enriched in gilding (the base broken in half and restuck, the seated boy with one leg restuck, handle of wicker-basket and extremities and leaves of tree lacking, some chipping to extremities)
11½in. (29.3cm.) high
Circa 1755, the ormolu mount 19th century
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, as a gallant, a lady and a boy about a cherry tree gathering cherries from a boy balanced in the tree picking the fruit, in coloured and flowered clothes, the gallant seated with a tricorn hat under his right arm and holding a cherry in his left hand before a wicker-basket of fruit, she standing holding out her fruit- filled apron, the boy seated behind eating cherries from his hat, on a scroll-moulded mound base applied with flowers and foliage and enriched in gilding (the base broken in half and restuck, the seated boy with one leg restuck, handle of wicker-basket and extremities and leaves of tree lacking, some chipping to extremities)
11½in. (29.3cm.) high