A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A WOOD-CUTTER modelled by J. J. Kändler wearing a broad-brimmed black hat, white shirt and breeches, a brown waistcoat with gilt buttons and black shoes with blue bows, his left foot placed on a log as he wields the axe, on a white oval mound base (axe lacking and associated old restoration to hands and handle of axe, large chip to brim of hat at front, minute chip to right sleeve), traces of blue crossed swords mark underneath base, circa 1745
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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A WOOD-CUTTER modelled by J. J. Kändler wearing a broad-brimmed black hat, white shirt and breeches, a brown waistcoat with gilt buttons and black shoes with blue bows, his left foot placed on a log as he wields the axe, on a white oval mound base (axe lacking and associated old restoration to hands and handle of axe, large chip to brim of hat at front, minute chip to right sleeve), traces of blue crossed swords mark underneath base, circa 1745
5¼in. (13.5cm.) high
Lot Essay
Cf. K. Butler, Meissner Porzellanplastik des 18.Jahrhunderts, Leningrad, 1977, no. 87 for an example in the Collection of the Hermitage Museum