CIRCA 1741

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A Meissen group of Beltrame and Columbine
Circa 1741
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, Columbine wearing a gilt-edged beige feathered hat tied with a blue ribbon under her chin, a white ruff, a gilt-edged gilt-flowered red and black bodice, yellow skirt edged with indianische Blumen and pale-brown underskirt edged with gilt diaper panels and scrolling foliage, standing next to Beltrame, Beltrame holding her left hand and gazing into her eyes, his hair en queue, wearing a white ruff, gilt-flowered puce cloak, slashed gilt-edged turquoise jacket with red rosettes, gilt-edged slashed black breeches and puce shoes, a cap tucked under his left elbow, on a shaped oval mound base applied with flowers and foliage (Columbine broken through skirt and base and restored, her head restuck, a flower on base and one feather of hat restored, slight chipping to flowers and foliage, areas of slight wear to gilding, areas of minute wear to enamels)
7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For other examples of this group first modelled by J.J. Kändler in 1740, see Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain, Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection (London, 1956), pl. 37; the example illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), p. 206, no. 864; the example in the Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, Basel, illustrated by Ingelore Menzhausen and Jürgen Karpinski, 'In Porzellan verzaubert' Catalogue (Basel, 1993), p. 187 and the example illustrated by Hermann Jedding, 'Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts in Hamburger Privatbesitz' Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Exhibition Catalogue (Hamburg, 1982), p. 200, no 209. Also see the example from the Nyffeler Collection sold in these Rooms on 9th June 1986, lot 40.

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