A PARCEL-GILT FIGURE OF A BEARDED MINSTREL, with detachable head, wearing a befeathered hat and a fur-trimmed coat, and with a dagger at his waist, the figure leaning against a tree-stump playing the lute, the oblong base chased with foliage and strapwork on a textured ground with fluted wooden stand, probably by Salomon Hoffman (Rosenberg 2103), Freiberg, circa 1700

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A PARCEL-GILT FIGURE OF A BEARDED MINSTREL, with detachable head, wearing a befeathered hat and a fur-trimmed coat, and with a dagger at his waist, the figure leaning against a tree-stump playing the lute, the oblong base chased with foliage and strapwork on a textured ground with fluted wooden stand, probably by Salomon Hoffman (Rosenberg 2103), Freiberg, circa 1700
41 cm high (1464 gr)

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According to the present owner, this figure was bought from the Berlin trade in 1925, and at one point belonged to King Albert of Saxony (1828-1902) and prior to this by Friedrich August II (1696-1763)

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