Lot Essay
Cf. L. & Y. Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures, London, 1987, p. 122 for a comparable maiden.
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1750-1760, MARKED WITH INDISTINCT BLUE CROSSED SWORDS
Details
A small Meissen figure of a winter vegetable seller and a figure of a Blackamoor
1750-1760, marked with indistinct blue crossed swords
(Mädchen mit Weintrauben) painted in colours, modelled by Peter Reinicke, the elegant lady with fur turban hat, wearing a flower-enhanced white dress outlined in fur and a striped apron, standing with one foot forward, a bucket filled with grapes in her left hand, her right hand holding up her grape-filled apron, on circular rockwork base applied with leaves; a Mohrenknabe, the blackamoor wearing European attire and a turban with colourful feathers (damages to the Blackamoor)
11.2 cm. and 14.5 cm. high
See illustration (2)
1750-1760, marked with indistinct blue crossed swords
(Mädchen mit Weintrauben) painted in colours, modelled by Peter Reinicke, the elegant lady with fur turban hat, wearing a flower-enhanced white dress outlined in fur and a striped apron, standing with one foot forward, a bucket filled with grapes in her left hand, her right hand holding up her grape-filled apron, on circular rockwork base applied with leaves; a Mohrenknabe, the blackamoor wearing European attire and a turban with colourful feathers (damages to the Blackamoor)
11.2 cm. and 14.5 cm. high
See illustration (2)
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