A MEISSEN GROUP OF MEZZETIN AND COLUMBINE modelled by J.J.Kändler, he in long black snood, yellow jacket with playing cards and blue breeches, she in puce bodice with a black panel with red bows, spotted apron and striped red and grey skirt, she holding a bird-cage and he with a dog between his feet, standing embracing, before a tree-stump, on a mound base applied with flowers and leaves (some branches of tree lacking, chip to her apron, minor chips to flowers and leaves), circa 1740

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF MEZZETIN AND COLUMBINE modelled by J.J.Kändler, he in long black snood, yellow jacket with playing cards and blue breeches, she in puce bodice with a black panel with red bows, spotted apron and striped red and grey skirt, she holding a bird-cage and he with a dog between his feet, standing embracing, before a tree-stump, on a mound base applied with flowers and leaves (some branches of tree lacking, chip to her apron, minor chips to flowers and leaves), circa 1740
18cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. the example from the Nyffler Collection sold in these Rooms on 9 June 1986, lot 33; see also Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 284-287

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