CIRCA 1744-50

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A Meissen group of Johann Georg Wentzel with Princess Maria Anna's dog
Circa 1744-50
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, his hair en queue, wearing a gilt-edged turquoise hunting uniform with purple cuffs and lapels and gilt buttons and pockets, a turqupoise waistcoat with a black belt, pale-yellow breeches and black boots, standing with his black tricorn hat tucked under his left arm and holding a large hunting-dog on a lead, the dog's white coat with brown and grey patches, seated on its haunches by a tree-stump on a shaped oval grassy mound base applied with foliage (chipping to tree, foliage, hair ribbon, hem of his coat at right and one end of lead, area of flaking to turquoise enamel at left elbow, minute wear to gilding, crack to base, tree and dog)
12 in. (30.4 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

This figure is a portrait of the huntsman Johann Georg Wentzel (1700-1752). The figure was first modelled by Kändler in 1744, and in his work report for 1744 he wrote: 'For Her Royal Highness Princess Maria Anna, a huntsman by the same of Wentzel, 15 Zoll in height, in costume and with facial resemblance, cleanly modelled in clay and holding next to him, on a rope, the favourite dog of the highly esteemed Princess'. Maria Anna, the daughter of Augustus III, married to the Elector of Bavaria, Maximilian Joseph. For a similar example, see Dr. K. Berling, Königlich Sächssissche Porzellanmanufaktur Meissen, 1710-1910 (Dresden, 1911), p. 37, fig. 67, and the example sold in these Rooms on 7th July 2003, lot 140.

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