拍品 818
818
A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A MINER (DER HAUER)
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARY PORTER WALSH
A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A MINER (DER HAUER)

GILT CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO HIS PURSE, MODELLED BY J.J. KÄNDLER AND P. REINEKE, CIRCA 1750

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A MINER (DER HAUER)
Gilt crossed swords mark to his purse, modelled by J.J. Kändler and P. Reineke, circa 1750
The worker wearing a white buttoned tunic and breeches, black apron and knee pads, a green and puce hat and axe resting against his right shoulder; together with a saucer from the Miner's service, circa 1750, blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 2, painted with a vignette of a miner standing before a storage house with two figures carrying ore into it, the rim with gilt Laub- und Bandelwerk
12½in. (31.6cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

The present figure is from a series of figures made by Meissen between 1748-1750 and derived from Christoph Weigel's engravings published in Nuremberg in 1721 to commemorate the celebrations held by the Saxon court on the Plaueschen Grund in 1719 on the occassion of the marriage of Friedrich August, later Augustus III, and Maria Josepha von Habsburg. The miners performed the Saturn Fest from a series depicting the Planets.