CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF ONE BASE AND UNDERSIDE OF OTHER

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TWO MEISSEN FIGURES OF WOODMEN
CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF ONE BASE AND UNDERSIDE OF OTHER
Modelled by P. Reinicke, the sawyer wearing a fur-lined green cap and russet coat, a yellow waistcoat and blue breeches, standing astride a pile of cut logs and sawing a log on an X-framed trestle, the other woodman splitting logs with an axe and wearing a black hat, a gilt-buttoned russet waistcoat, a white shirt and blue breeches, each on shaped mound bases (saw broken through and restuck with some replaced areas, wood-splitter with over-painting to breeches disguising crack or flaking to enamel, over-painting to hat disguising chipping or flaking, axe restored)
Sawyer 4 7/8 in. (12.5 cm.) high; wood-cutter 5¼ in. (13.4 cm.) high (2)

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Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.

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拍品專文

Although only loosely related, this model is probably inspired by Comte de Caylus's engraving after the drawing by Edmé Bouchardon. These figures are recorded in Kändler's Taxa in November 1745, but it has been suggested that they are closer in spirit to the work of Reinicke. For an illustration of a similar model and the Bouchardon drawing, see Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures (London, 1987), pp. 160-161. Another example of a sawyer was sold in these Rooms on 9th July 2001, lot 243.