Lot 193
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Two Meissen groups of Count Brühl's tailor and his wife
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Two Meissen groups of Count Brühl's tailor and his wife

CIRCA 1745, THE SECOND WITH TRACES OF BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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Two Meissen groups of Count Brühl's tailor and his wife
CIRCA 1745, THE SECOND WITH TRACES OF BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Modelled with the tailor seated astride a long-haired goat, holding a pair of scissors in his right hand, a pannier on his back with two kids, the goat with two holsters over his neck and a flat-iron in his mouth, the tailor's wife modelled by Eberlein, suckling an infant and seated side-saddle on a nanny-goat with her kid beneath her, each on rectangular mound bases applied with coloured flowers and foliage (first possibly broken through behind goat's neck at join with tailor and restored, goat's ears, horns, tail and some extremities of coat with restoration, tailor's right hand and right foot probably replacements, chipping to flowers and foliage, further small repairs to extremities, second possibly broken through tree-stump and goat's legs and restored, restoration to goat's left horn and tail)
8 7/8 in. (22.6 cm.) high and 6 7/8 in. (17.6 cm.) high (2)
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Lot Essay

See Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), nos. 978 and 885 for similar examples. The group of the tailor's wife was first modelled by Eberlein in 1740, and the other by Kändler in 1740. Also see Carl Albiker, Die Meissner Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1959), nos. 265 and 266. Another pair of similar groups are illustrated by P.W. Meister, Sammlung Pauls, Riehen, Schweiz, Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts (Frankfurt, 1967), Vol. I, pp. 292-293.

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