A Meissen group of Scaramouche and Columbine with a bird-cage

CIRCA 1740

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A Meissen group of Scaramouche and Columbine with a bird-cage
Circa 1740
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, he in plumed blue cap, white shirt, yellow jacket with red bows and cuffs, pink breeches with turquoise rosettes and black shoes, with his right hand raised and holding a bird, she to his right in a red tricorn hat, turquoise and black bodice, her skirt with indianische Blumen and a pug-dog tucked into her bright blue apron, standing before a domed circular bird-cage resting on a tree-stump and with a leafy bough at their side, on a shaped rectangular mound base applied with coloured flowers (restoration to his right hand at wrist, bird, plume, index finger of left hand, his right thigh, her right sleeve, her right little finger lacking, minor retouching to enamels of her bodice, some chipping and restoration to flowers and foliage)
8 1/8in. (20.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Kändler's Taxa records that this was a satire on the 'Kurfuerstlich-Saechsischen Oberlandbaumeister Knoefel...Ein Mann mit Vogelbauer, worin ein Papagai, neben ihm steht ein Frauenzimmer, so dem Papagai Kirschen zu fressen gibt und dem Mann Federn auf den Kopf setzt wogegen er ihr eine Meise prasentiert'.

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