A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A FISHERMAN modelled by J.J. Kändler holding two fish another tucked into his shirt, in bright-yellow mob cap, blue waistcoat, white shirt and pantaloons, leaning barefoot against a tree-stump on a mound base applied with flowers (one fish's tail restored, slight crack to base and minute flaking to blue enamel), blue crossed swords mark at back, circa 1738

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A FISHERMAN modelled by J.J. Kändler holding two fish another tucked into his shirt, in bright-yellow mob cap, blue waistcoat, white shirt and pantaloons, leaning barefoot against a tree-stump on a mound base applied with flowers (one fish's tail restored, slight crack to base and minute flaking to blue enamel), blue crossed swords mark at back, circa 1738
18.5cm. high

Lot Essay

See Rainer Rückert, op. cit. for a similar example, the model first appears in Kändlers Taxa in December 1738; similar examples sold in these Rooms on 30 September 1991, lot 235 and by Christie's Geneva on 9 November 1987, lot 105 and 11 May 1981, lot 123

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