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Lot Essay
An entry in the Meissen archive under Johann Friedrich Eberlein for December 1735 describes the present pair as follows: "Ein Pagott mit einem Affen vbon Thon bossiert" and "Ein Pagoiten-Weibel mit einem Papagei und Postament von Thon".
Examples are recorded in several public collections including Sammlung Klocher, now in the Historisches Museum, Basel; Sammlung Pauls-Eisenbeiss, now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Sammlung Zimmermann, now in the Porzellansammlung, Dresden (male figure only); the van Geldern and Untermyer Collections, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (a true pair wearing matching flowered kimonos); the Lucy T. Aldrich Collection, now in the museum at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island; J. Pierpont Morgan, now in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford. Examples presumeably still extant include those formerly in the Fischer and later von Gerhardt, von Klemperer, Tillmann, Budge, and Goldschmidt-Rothchild Collections.
A male figure, identically painted to the present female and logically her true partner, is in the collection of the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin. See Stefan Bursche, Meissen Steinzug und Porzellan des 18.Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1980, cat no. 297.
Examples are recorded in several public collections including Sammlung Klocher, now in the Historisches Museum, Basel; Sammlung Pauls-Eisenbeiss, now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Sammlung Zimmermann, now in the Porzellansammlung, Dresden (male figure only); the van Geldern and Untermyer Collections, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (a true pair wearing matching flowered kimonos); the Lucy T. Aldrich Collection, now in the museum at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island; J. Pierpont Morgan, now in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford. Examples presumeably still extant include those formerly in the Fischer and later von Gerhardt, von Klemperer, Tillmann, Budge, and Goldschmidt-Rothchild Collections.
A male figure, identically painted to the present female and logically her true partner, is in the collection of the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin. See Stefan Bursche, Meissen Steinzug und Porzellan des 18.Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1980, cat no. 297.