Lot Essay
Cf. Dr. K. Berling, (Ed.), Meissen China, An Illustrated History, Toronto and London 1972, Table 13, no. 8 for the original model of the 18th Century
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A MEISSEN GROUP OF SPRING
After the original model by J. J. Kändler, circa 1890
He wearing a straw hat, pale-green suit and pink waistcoat, holding a bouquet in his raised left hand and with his right arm around her waist, she wearing a flowered open-robe and striped lilac skirt, holding a fan and with her left hand on his shoulder, on a scroll-moulded white mound base applied with flowers (minute chips to flowers), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 136, incised 35.
6¼in. (16cm.) high
After the original model by J. J. Kändler, circa 1890
He wearing a straw hat, pale-green suit and pink waistcoat, holding a bouquet in his raised left hand and with his right arm around her waist, she wearing a flowered open-robe and striped lilac skirt, holding a fan and with her left hand on his shoulder, on a scroll-moulded white mound base applied with flowers (minute chips to flowers), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 136, incised 35.
6¼in. (16cm.) high