CIRCA 1756

Details

A Chelsea figure of a map-seller
Circa 1756
After the original by J.J. Kändler for Meissen, standing beside a tree-stump holding a scroll tied with iron-red ribbons in his left hand and an unrolled scroll painted with a map in his right hand, his brown luggage and bundled fur-coat tied to his back with yellow straps, wearing a black hat and spotted iron-red neckerchief, his white jacket with blue cuffs and his shirt striped in green, yellow, blue and iron-red with gilt buttons, in dark-brown breeches, the shaped circular base applied with flowers and foliage (some damages and restoration)
7¼in. (19.5cm.) high

Provenance

Major Clarke-Jervoise, D.L., J.P., sale Christie's, 15 June 1970, lot 249.

Literature

Margaret Legge, Flowers and Fables, A Survey of Chelsea Porcelain 1745-1769, p. 39, no. 64.

Exhibited

Flowers and Fables, A Survey of Chelsea Porcelain 1745-69, November 1984 - February 1985, no. 64.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Taken from an engraving by Caylus after Edmé Bouchardon and first modelled by Kändler for Meissen in 1748.

'Two figures of a mapseller and a Jew with his box of toys' appear in the Chelsea Sale Catalogue of 1756 (Sixth Day's Sale, 3 April 1756, lot 49).

Cf. Elizabeth Adams, Chelsea Porcelain (London, 1987), pl. 107 and F. Severne Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain, The Red Anchor Wares (London, 1951), pl. 72, fig. 144 for the example in Lord and Lady Fisher's Collection, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; and Yvonne HAckenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain in the Irwin Untermyer Collection (London, 1957) pl. 24, fig. 42.

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