CIRCA 1740

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A MEISSEN CRINOLINE GROUP OF A LADY WITH A MOORISH ATTENDANT
CIRCA 1740
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, the lady wearing a long turquoise-edged yellow dress and a gilt and black flowered puce crinoline, seated with a pug-dog on her lap on a chair with a high pierced back, holding a fan and a cup of coffee, a moorish page on the left in a feathered turban, gilt-edged white jacket, flowered white skirt and yellow boots, holding a tazza with a covered beaker, a table on her left with a cabaret and a snuff-box, on a shaped mound base applied with coloured flowers and foliage (small section of base below moor restored and possibly restuck, front right side of table restuck and corner of table-cloth a replacement, restored crack through base and up lady's crinoline, her left side, arm, fan and cap ribbons restored, left side of chair with small minor area of restoration, some re-touching to gilding and slight wear to enamels, further small damages and repairs)
6 1/16 in. (15.5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The engraving by Laurent Cars after Boucher depicting a scene from Molière's comedy Le Sicilien ou l'Amour Peintre is the graphic source for this group. For a similar example in the Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, see Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century (London, 1972), Vol. I, pp. 194-195, where other examples are also listed. For a variant of this model with a kneeling cavalier, see Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Collection Franz E. Burda (1997), no. 6, pp. 86-87. This group was first modelled by Kändler in April-June 1737, and as his Taxa record does not mention a pug, the inclusion of one in this group suggests that it could have been created after the foundation of the Mopsorden in

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