Lot 113
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A Meissen figure of a fisherman
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A Meissen figure of a fisherman

CIRCA 1755, TRACES OF BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, POSSIBLY WITH INCISED MARK

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A Meissen figure of a fisherman
Circa 1755, traces of blue crossed swords mark, possibly with incised mark
Wearing a pale-yellow hat, a puce shirt, green breeches and yellow sandals, a circular basket of fish suspended from straps about his waist and shoulders, a fish in his right hand, his left hand behind his back holding a net with further fish, standing before a tree-stump on a shaped oval mound base moulded with gilt scrolls and applied with flowers and foliage (hat and net extensively restored, right hand and basket at his hip both restuck, chip to tree and slight chipping to flowers and foliage, slight wear to gilding)
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

A similar figure was sold by Christie's London on 22nd June 1992, lot 194, and a similar figure with his companion were sold on 25th November 1991, lot 318. For a similar pair in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, see K. Butler, Meissner Porzellanplastik des 18. Jahrhunderts die Sammlung der Ermitage, no. 157.

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