A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE INKSTAND after an original model by J. J. Kändler, of rococo form and painted outside the factory with scattered flowers, moulded with pink, turquoise and gilt scrolls and fitted with an inkpot and a sand-shaker, each formed as a kneeling Oriental child wearing flowered robes with broad collars, one with an open book, flanking a box and cover formed as a melon, the back of the stand fitted with a pair of Orientals on a gilt-tasselled orange cushion, she standing holding a detachable porcelain and metal parasol and he seated holding a scroll cartouche and a bowl (restoration to parasol, chip to back of stand, general small chips to extremities), cancelled blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 39, incised 2778, circa 1880

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A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE INKSTAND after an original model by J. J. Kändler, of rococo form and painted outside the factory with scattered flowers, moulded with pink, turquoise and gilt scrolls and fitted with an inkpot and a sand-shaker, each formed as a kneeling Oriental child wearing flowered robes with broad collars, one with an open book, flanking a box and cover formed as a melon, the back of the stand fitted with a pair of Orientals on a gilt-tasselled orange cushion, she standing holding a detachable porcelain and metal parasol and he seated holding a scroll cartouche and a bowl (restoration to parasol, chip to back of stand, general small chips to extremities), cancelled blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 39, incised 2778, circa 1880
9in. (23cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, p. 242, no. 993 for an example of 1760; see also K. Butler, Meissner Porzellanplastik des 18. Jahrhunderts, no. 141 for examples of the two kneeling figures in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

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