CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASE

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A POLISH LADY
CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASE
Modelled by J.J. Kändler and J.F. Eberlein, wearing a white headscarf, a fur-lined turquoise cape and black bodice, pulling her overskirt up slightly with her right hand, the overskirt painted with indianische Blumen and with central vertical yellow borders and a silvered hem, her puce underskirt with a white hem, resting a gilt-edged fan against her chin, standing on a mound base applied with flowers and foliage (chipping to two leaves and areas of wear to silvered hem)
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Another example with its companion was in the Klemperer Collection, see Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellansammlung Gustav von Klemperer (Dresden, 1928), p. 139, nos. 542-3, where he points out that this model was begun by Kändler in 1743 and finished by Eberlein in 1744.

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