CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO REVERSE OF MALE FIGURE'S BASE

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TWO MEISSEN FIGURES OF COOKS
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO REVERSE OF MALE FIGURE'S BASE
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, the first wearing a ribbon-tied wig, a white jabot, double-breasted white jacket and black breeches, a knife tucked into the top of his white apron, holding a frying-pan and a piece of meat, seated on a brick plinth, his companion larding a hare with pieces of fat, a bar of fat on a chopping-board on her lap, wearing a yellow bonnet, green bodice, white apron and flowered skirt, seated on a tree-stump, both on square paved plinth bases, her base painted brown (saucepan handle and knife-blade restored, her right foot restuck, flaking to bodice, wear to silver interior of saucepan, minute chipping to pieces of fat on hare, chip to his left cuff)
6 7/8 in. (17.4 cm.) and 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) high (2)

Exhibited

Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

A similar pair of cooks were sold in these Rooms on 5th April 1982, lot 164, and another pair in our Geneva Rooms on 12th November 1976, lot 222. See Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century (London, 1972), Vol. I, pp. 92-93 for the pair of figures in the Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, Switzerland. For the male figure, see L. and Y. Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures (London, 1987), no. XLVI, and for his companion, see I. Handt and H. Rakebrandt, Meissner Porzellan des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts 1710-1750 (Dresden, 1956), pl. 117.

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