A MEISSEN GROUP OF THE TYROLEAN DANCERS after the model by J.F. Eberlein, he in a black hat with a red rosette, gilt-trimmed ruff, blue-patterned jacket, pink breeches and black shoes, she with long plaited hair, in a grey bodice with gilt dots, pink skirt with indianische Blumen, iron-red patterned apron and red shoes with yellow rosettes, clasped in a swirling embrace, on a green mound base applied with flowers and leaves (his right leg at thigh and her right ankle broken and restuck, very minor chips to flowers and leaves, slight flaking to base enamels), blue crossed swords mark to underside of base, circa 1745, some of the decoration perhaps slightly later

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF THE TYROLEAN DANCERS after the model by J.F. Eberlein, he in a black hat with a red rosette, gilt-trimmed ruff, blue-patterned jacket, pink breeches and black shoes, she with long plaited hair, in a grey bodice with gilt dots, pink skirt with indianische Blumen, iron-red patterned apron and red shoes with yellow rosettes, clasped in a swirling embrace, on a green mound base applied with flowers and leaves (his right leg at thigh and her right ankle broken and restuck, very minor chips to flowers and leaves, slight flaking to base enamels), blue crossed swords mark to underside of base, circa 1745, some of the decoration perhaps slightly later
16cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. the example sold in these Rooms 4 July 1983, lot 182 and Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, op.cit., pp. 80-83 where other examples are cited

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