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A Meissen figure of a laundryman from a series of Parisian Street Traders
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A Meissen figure of a laundryman from a series of Parisian Street Traders

CIRCA 1748, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AT BACK

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A Meissen figure of a laundryman from a series of Parisian Street Traders
Circa 1748, blue crossed swords mark at back
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, in black tricorn hat, white coat with gilt buttons and white shirt, brown apron and black shoes, his three-footed cauldron hanging from his right shoulder, the cover in his right hand and a flat iron in his left hand, standing before a tree-stump on a mound base applied with flowers and foliage (some restoration to hat, feet of cauldron, handles, iron and foliage)
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Kändler, assisted by Eberlein, modelled a series of Parisian street traders which pre-dated the Cris de Paris series and the two others made of London and St. Petersburg street traders. The figures were modelled after the engravings by the Comte de Caylus after the original drawings by Edmé Bouchardon. In spite of the fact that Kändler followed the engravings so closely, these figures translate remarkably well into three-dimensions. This itinerant laundryman, who would have brought the necessary equipment with him to a client's house, was probably drawn from life, much in the same way that in the 1580's Annibale Carracci made about eighty drawings of Bolognese tradesmen from life, all going about their daily business. For a similar figure, illustrated with the original drawing by Bouchardon, see Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures (London, 1987), p. 93.

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