Lot Essay
For the model and its companion see Bernard Rackham, The Schreiber Collection Catalogue (1928), pl. 1, no. 1. Similar figures sold in these Rooms, 12 February 1990, lot 187 and 1 June 1987, lot 245.
PROPERTY FROM A DECEASED ESTATE
A Bow figure of a fisher-woman
CIRCA 1756
Details
A Bow figure of a fisher-woman
Circa 1756
After the original model by J.J. Kändler, with brown hair and pink cheeks, standing with fish in her apron and in the basket at her feet, wearing a pink bodice with blue cuffs and a brown-sprigged pale yellow skirt, on a square base scattered with shells (handle to basket lacking, both arms and apron restuck, fold to apron and one fish-tail lacking, cracks to base, chipping to extremities)
6in. (15cm.) high
Circa 1756
After the original model by J.J. Kändler, with brown hair and pink cheeks, standing with fish in her apron and in the basket at her feet, wearing a pink bodice with blue cuffs and a brown-sprigged pale yellow skirt, on a square base scattered with shells (handle to basket lacking, both arms and apron restuck, fold to apron and one fish-tail lacking, cracks to base, chipping to extremities)
6in. (15cm.) high