A MEISSEN GROUP OF COUNT BRÜHL'S TAILOR SEATED ON A GOAT after the original model by J. J. Kändler, the bespectacled figure facing left, wearing a black tricorn hat, flowered coat edged with gilt braid and with balls of wool in his pockets, a striped and flowered waistcoat, yellow breeches and a lilac sash satirising the wearer by incorporating the symbols of his trade in a cartouche, his tools filling a satchel behind him, the goat wearing spectacles and with an iron and scissors on his horns, a pin-cushion and two panniers on his back (restoration to right hind-leg, chips to extremities and base), blue crossed swords mark, late 19th Century

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF COUNT BRÜHL'S TAILOR SEATED ON A GOAT after the original model by J. J. Kändler, the bespectacled figure facing left, wearing a black tricorn hat, flowered coat edged with gilt braid and with balls of wool in his pockets, a striped and flowered waistcoat, yellow breeches and a lilac sash satirising the wearer by incorporating the symbols of his trade in a cartouche, his tools filling a satchel behind him, the goat wearing spectacles and with an iron and scissors on his horns, a pin-cushion and two panniers on his back (restoration to right hind-leg, chips to extremities and base), blue crossed swords mark, late 19th Century
17¼in. (44cm.) high

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Cf. Dr. K. Berling, (ed.), op. cit., p. 31, Fig. 47. See also Hermann Jedding, op. cit. p. 67, no. 56

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