CIRCA 1755, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A Meissen military equestrian group
CIRCA 1755, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
The soldier wearing a gilt-edged fur-lined black tricorn hat, a gilt-edged yellow-lined blue uniform seated on a horse, a sword in a scabbard at his left side, his arms raised and holding drum-sticks, seated on a white horse with pale-brown dappled markings, a black bridle and a gilt-edged pink saddle-cloth, with two large kettle-drums either side of its neck, supported beneath by a tree-stump on an elongated oval mound base applied with coloured flowers and foliage (restoration to drum-sticks, horse's forelegs and straps on his back, right drum and soldier's arms restuck, other small repairs, chipping to flowers and foliage)
7½ in. (19 cm.) high

Literature

Guttmann Catalogue, no. 117.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A similar example was sold in these Rooms on 30th March 1987, lot 120, and another is illustrated by Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures (London, 1987), col. pl. XI, where they point out that this figure was used on the table as a salt as the drums are hollow. A similar example is illustrated by Carl Albiker, Die Meissener Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1959), no. 268. Also see K. Berling, Meissen, Commemorative Edition (1911), p. 30, fig 45 for a similar model with a pendant equestrian figure of a trumpeter.

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