THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A Meissen group of a sportsman and companion
CIRCA 1755, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
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A Meissen group of a sportsman and companion
Circa 1755, blue crossed swords mark
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, he wearing a gilt-edged black hat, turquoise coat and waistcoat, blowing a french horn and standing beside a tree-stump, his companion in a gilt-edged hat, blue puce-ribboned bodice and flowered skirt, holding his gun and seated barefoot on rocks with a bird's nest balanced on her knee, with a hunting hound running between them, on a pierced gilt scroll-moulded shaped oval high mound base (losses to his left hand, sword and hound's tail, her left foot lacking, break through companion's legs and dog's tail and rear right foot restored, chipping to gun stock and extremities)
7 1/8in. (18.1cm.) high
Circa 1755, blue crossed swords mark
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, he wearing a gilt-edged black hat, turquoise coat and waistcoat, blowing a french horn and standing beside a tree-stump, his companion in a gilt-edged hat, blue puce-ribboned bodice and flowered skirt, holding his gun and seated barefoot on rocks with a bird's nest balanced on her knee, with a hunting hound running between them, on a pierced gilt scroll-moulded shaped oval high mound base (losses to his left hand, sword and hound's tail, her left foot lacking, break through companion's legs and dog's tail and rear right foot restored, chipping to gun stock and extremities)
7 1/8in. (18.1cm.) high