CIRCA 1742, TRACES OF BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF THE 'MARCHAND DE COEURS'
CIRCA 1742, TRACES OF BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, the lady seated on a chair, wearing an ermine-lined puce shawl, turquoise and yellow dress and flowered yellow crinoline, a snuff-box in her right hand, the gentleman offering her a heart-shaped snuff-box, his wig with a large ribbon, wearing a gilt-edged dark-brown frock-coat, gilt-edged red jacket and breeches, the trinket-seller standing with an open box of wares and a snuff-box in her hand, in a puce hat, puce flowered apron and blue striped white skirt, on a shaped mound base with flowers and foliage (small part of base below trinket-seller restuck to main base, her head restuck and restored damage to arms, box and hat, lady's left arm restuck with restoration to sleeve and hand, dress at back with cracks and some over-painting, gentleman's left hand restuck with replacement fingers, restored chip to hat, areas of flaking to enamels and wear to silver and gilding, further small minor repairs)
7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) high

Provenance

Anon., sale Lempertz, Cologne, 22nd May 1957, lot 127 (6,500 DM), illustrated pl. 1.

Exhibited

Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

This group, one of Kändler's most elaborate crinoline groups, was first modelled in 1738. Another example was sold in these Rooms on 28th March 1977, lot 131. The groups in the Pauls, Untermyer and Rijksmuseum Collections have an additional figure at the back. The British Museum group has only the lady and the trinket-seller. See I. Menzhausen, In Porzellan verzaubert, Die Figuren Johann Joachim Kändlers in Meissen aus der Sammlung Pauls-Eisenbeiss Basel (Basel, 1993), no. 101; Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain, Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection (London, 1956), pl. 34, fig. 42, and A.L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, 2000), pp. 430-431, no. 315.

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