A MEISSEN FIGURE OF 'LE MANGEUR DE RAISINS' modelled by J.J. Kändler in a black hat, yellow jerkin, white shirt and breeches and black shoes, carrying a brown and white pannier on his back filled with grapes, standing holding and eating a bunch of grapes with his right foot forward on a mound base applied with flowers and leaves before a tree-stump (chips to hat and edge of jerkin, his right thumb lacking, chips to flowers and leaves), blue crossed swords mark to base, circa 1740

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF 'LE MANGEUR DE RAISINS' modelled by J.J. Kändler in a black hat, yellow jerkin, white shirt and breeches and black shoes, carrying a brown and white pannier on his back filled with grapes, standing holding and eating a bunch of grapes with his right foot forward on a mound base applied with flowers and leaves before a tree-stump (chips to hat and edge of jerkin, his right thumb lacking, chips to flowers and leaves), blue crossed swords mark to base, circa 1740
19cm. high

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Cf. the example sold in these Rooms, 13 March 1967, lot 123

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