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CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT BACK OF BASE
Details
A Meissen figure of a an infantry fifer
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT BACK OF BASE
Modelled standing with his left foot forward, playing the fife, his hair tied en queue, wearing a black tricorn hat, a pale-blue jacket with a white collar, cuffs and lining, a white waistcoat with blue trimming, a brown and gilt sword, white gaiters over black boots, a tree-stump behind him, on a square mound base (restoration to pipe and sword)
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) high
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT BACK OF BASE
Modelled standing with his left foot forward, playing the fife, his hair tied en queue, wearing a black tricorn hat, a pale-blue jacket with a white collar, cuffs and lining, a white waistcoat with blue trimming, a brown and gilt sword, white gaiters over black boots, a tree-stump behind him, on a square mound base (restoration to pipe and sword)
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) high
Literature
Guttmann Catalogue, no. 120.
Special notice
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