A MEISSEN FIGURE OF THE SNUFF-TAKER modelled by J.J. Kändler, the long haired figure with a ruddy complexion and wearing a black hat with a yellow rosette, puce waistcoat with purple flowers, yellow breeches and black shoes with red rosettes, standing with his right foot forward and holding an open gilt snuff-box from which he has just taken a pinch with his left hand, on a mound base applied with flowers and leaves before a tree-stump (minor chips to flowers and leaves), circa 1745

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF THE SNUFF-TAKER modelled by J.J. Kändler, the long haired figure with a ruddy complexion and wearing a black hat with a yellow rosette, puce waistcoat with purple flowers, yellow breeches and black shoes with red rosettes, standing with his right foot forward and holding an open gilt snuff-box from which he has just taken a pinch with his left hand, on a mound base applied with flowers and leaves before a tree-stump (minor chips to flowers and leaves), circa 1745
19.5cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. Hermann Jedding, Meissener Porzellan des 18 Jahrhunderts in Hamburger Privatbesitz, no. 227, Kändler mentions modelling this figure in his Taxa for 1740-48, "So den Huth abnehmen will, u. eine Tabaccs-Dose praesentirt"

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