A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A MASTER MINER modelled by J.J. Kändler, perhaps representing Augustus III, in turquoise peaked hat, gilt with crossed pick-axes with a plume and rosette to one side, in flowing grey peruke his head turned to the left with his left arm to his waist, gilt-edged and buttoned jacket revealing an iron-red waistcoat and black pouch, in long black back-apron, yellow gloves, black knee-guards and shoes, his sword hanging at his left side, standing on a rockwork square mound base applied with coloured flowers and foliage (sword lacking from right hand, plume lacking, minute chips to hat, peruke, tip of sword, edge of jacket and extremities), circa 1750

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A MASTER MINER modelled by J.J. Kändler, perhaps representing Augustus III, in turquoise peaked hat, gilt with crossed pick-axes with a plume and rosette to one side, in flowing grey peruke his head turned to the left with his left arm to his waist, gilt-edged and buttoned jacket revealing an iron-red waistcoat and black pouch, in long black back-apron, yellow gloves, black knee-guards and shoes, his sword hanging at his left side, standing on a rockwork square mound base applied with coloured flowers and foliage (sword lacking from right hand, plume lacking, minute chips to hat, peruke, tip of sword, edge of jacket and extremities), circa 1750
21.5cm. high

Lot Essay

Adapted from engravings published by Christoph Weigel of Nuremberg in 1721 'Abbildung und Beschreiburg derer Sämtlichen Bergwerks Beamten un Bedienten nach ihrm göhnlichen Rang und ordnung in behörigen Berghabit' to commemorate a festivity at the Court of Saxony in the Planescher Frund in 1719

Cf. Rainer Rückert, op. cit., no. 897; Ernst Zimmermann, Meissner Porzellan, p. 196, no. 61; Dr. Erika-Pauls Eisenbeiss, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 94-95; and a similar example sold by Sotheby's on 7 July 1964, lot 111

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