A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A FRIAR modelled by J.J. Kändler, the bearded man holding a clasped book, his dark-brown habit with its hood raised, his scapular inscribed in gilt Charitas within a gilt sunburst on a waisted square base (some restoration to fingers, coloured in chip to front of habit), circa 1740

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A FRIAR modelled by J.J. Kändler, the bearded man holding a clasped book, his dark-brown habit with its hood raised, his scapular inscribed in gilt Charitas within a gilt sunburst on a waisted square base (some restoration to fingers, coloured in chip to front of habit), circa 1740
30cm. high

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's Geneva, 28 April 1978, lot 139

Lot Essay

Rainer Rückert, op. cit., p 173 discusses various monk figures modelled by J.J. Kändler in 1740 and 1741 for the Duke of Courland and Field Marshal von Munnich. The present figures though larger in size than those illustrated by Rückert is probably one of the 1740 series

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