A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A COPPERSMITH, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief after a model by J.J. Kaendler, depicting a seated young man wearing; a grey bonnet, a blue vest, a white shirt, a skin-coloured garment over his legs, holding a hammer in his right hand and a bowl over an anvil, his right leg resting on another anvil beside a kettle, seated on a treetrunk, the circular base adorned with rocailles, (some chips to the glaze), marked with tiny underglaze blue crossed swords, mid-18th Century
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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A COPPERSMITH, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief after a model by J.J. Kaendler, depicting a seated young man wearing; a grey bonnet, a blue vest, a white shirt, a skin-coloured garment over his legs, holding a hammer in his right hand and a bowl over an anvil, his right leg resting on another anvil beside a kettle, seated on a treetrunk, the circular base adorned with rocailles, (some chips to the glaze), marked with tiny underglaze blue crossed swords, mid-18th Century
18.5 cm high
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