A MEISSEN GROUP OF APPLE-PICKERS after the model by J. J. Kändler and F. E. Meyer, formed as a young man leaning from the top rungs of a ladder across the cleft of a branch, to toss apples into the outspread apron of a young woman standing at the foot of the tree, a smaller boy catching fruit in his hat with his foot on a basket and another seated eating the fruit, on a mound base (restoration to leaves and branches and to seated boy's right leg and foot, very small chips to applied extremities), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 35, incised 998., circa 1880

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF APPLE-PICKERS after the model by J. J. Kändler and F. E. Meyer, formed as a young man leaning from the top rungs of a ladder across the cleft of a branch, to toss apples into the outspread apron of a young woman standing at the foot of the tree, a smaller boy catching fruit in his hat with his foot on a basket and another seated eating the fruit, on a mound base (restoration to leaves and branches and to seated boy's right leg and foot, very small chips to applied extremities), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 35, incised 998., circa 1880
10½in. (26.6cm.) high

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Cf. R. Rückert, op. cit., p. 216, no. 884 for an example of circa 1753. See also an example sold in these rooms, 29 October 1992, lot 133

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