CIRCA 1737-40, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN CHINOISERIE FIGURES
CIRCA 1737-40, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, each seated cross-legged in puce-lined gilt-edged robes with indianische Blumen, the left figure wearing a curved conical jewelled hat with a foliate brim, holding a fan in her right hand and a parrot perched on her left hand, the right figure in a domed gilt-gadrooned hat, a parrot perched on his right knee, his hand stroking its tail and holding a fan in his other hand, each on square plinth bases with canted corners (areas of very slight wear, left figure with restoration to some fingers, lower part of fan restuck, right figure's left arm restuck, associated break through fan restored, restoration to three fingers, thumb and left side of hat brim, both with further very small and minor damages and repairs)
7 in. (17.9 cm.) and 7 1/16 in. (18 cm.) high (2)

展覽

Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.

注意事項

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拍品專文

This pair of figures were modelled as part of the Tafelaufsatz for Count Brühl in late 1736, or early 1737. The pair in a Hamburg private collection are illustrated by H. Jedding, Meissner Porzellan des 18 Jahrhunderts in Hamburger Privatbesitz (Hamburg, 1982), nos. 219-220. Formerly in the Emden and Remé Collections, they are described by Jedding as 'among the greatest rareties'. A pair from the R.W.M. Walker Collection sold in these Rooms on 25th July 1949, lot 10, and now in the Linsky Collection are illustrated by Clare Le Corbeiller et al., The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1984), pp. 258-259, nos. 168 and 169. Another pair from the Erich von Goldschmidt Rothschild Collection was sold by Ball & Graupe, Berlin, on 25th March 1931, lot 444, and a male figure was in the René Fribourg Collection.