Lot Essay
Cf. Schnorr von Carolsfeld, op. cit., no. 562; Yvonne Hackenbroch, op. cit.; a similar example sold in these Rooms, 20 February 1969, lot 101; Hermann Schmitz, Ole Olsens Kunstsammlung, vol. II no. 1406
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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A DANCING PEASANT modelled by J.J. Kändler, his left arm raised to his grey hat and his right holding a tankard to his chest in yellow-lined red jacket, white shirt with pink braces and black pantaloons and shoes with red and yellow bows, reclining on a tree-stump on a circular mound base, circa 1740
17cm. high
17cm. high