Sold by Order of the Executors of the SIXTH MARQUESS OF BUTE
A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A MAPSELLER from the Cris de Paris series, modelled by J.J. Kändler, in a grey hat with a red ribbon, turquoise jacket, purple waistcoat and black breeches with an open map in his right hand, an oval box under his left arm and a mottled brown rectangular box and a black bundle on his back, standing before a tree-stump on a mound base applied with flowers and leaves (fingers of his left hand lacking, lower part of map replaced, crack to his right thumb, minor chip to hat, chips to flowers and foliage), blue crossed swords mark to underside of base, circa 1748

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A MAPSELLER from the Cris de Paris series, modelled by J.J. Kändler, in a grey hat with a red ribbon, turquoise jacket, purple waistcoat and black breeches with an open map in his right hand, an oval box under his left arm and a mottled brown rectangular box and a black bundle on his back, standing before a tree-stump on a mound base applied with flowers and leaves (fingers of his left hand lacking, lower part of map replaced, crack to his right thumb, minor chip to hat, chips to flowers and foliage), blue crossed swords mark to underside of base, circa 1748
16.5cm. high

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Len and Yvonne Adams, op. cit., p. 108, pl. XXX inspired by the drawing by Edmé Bouchardon