A MEISSEN BLACKSMITH fashioning a horseshoe at an anvil resting on a tree-stump, in white mob cap, puce jacket, brown apron, yellow breeches and black shoes, a hammer at his feet (restoration to hammer in right hand, part of horseshoe lacking, slight chip to bottom edge of jacket and to foliage), circa 1750 | Christie's

Lot 169

169

A MEISSEN BLACKSMITH fashioning a horseshoe at an anvil resting on a tree-stump, in white mob cap, puce jacket, brown apron, yellow breeches and black shoes, a hammer at his feet (restoration to hammer in right hand, part of horseshoe lacking, slight chip to bottom edge of jacket and to foliage), circa 1750

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A MEISSEN BLACKSMITH fashioning a horseshoe at an anvil resting on a tree-stump, in white mob cap, puce jacket, brown apron, yellow breeches and black shoes, a hammer at his feet (restoration to hammer in right hand, part of horseshoe lacking, slight chip to bottom edge of jacket and to foliage), circa 1750
22cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. Len and Yvonne Adams, op. cit., p. 154 and the example sold in these Rooms on 28 October 1963, lot 61

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