CIRCA 1745

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A Meissen group of a shepherd and shepherdess
Circa 1745
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, he in gilt-edged pale-yellow hat, gilt-edged and buttoned blue jacket, white shirt, black breeches and yellow shoes, a dog at his side, she leaning on his shoulder in a red bodice, white apron and yellow skirt with indianische Blumen and red-striped shoes, holding a sheep and seated on rockwork on an oval base applied with coloured flowers (chipping to ribbon, damage to ribbon on his hat, chip to her left toe and dog's ear, some minute chipping to flowers and foliage)
6¼ in. (16 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

See the similar example in the Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection (Kirschgarten, Basel), illustrated by Ingelore Menzhausen and Jürgen Karpinski, In Porzellan verzaubert (Basel 1993), p. 149; the example illustrated by Rainer Rückert in, Meissener Porzellan (1966), pl. 209, no. 869; and the example in the Victoria and Albert and Museum, from the Gift of Mrs Oswald Finney, number C.24-1984.

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