Lot Essay
See Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), p. 221, no. 904 for the example in the Residenz, Munich.
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CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT BACK
Details
A MEISSEN FIGURE OF ST. JOSEPH WITH THE CHRIST CHILD
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT BACK
The bearded Saint with a radiating gilt halo, wearing flowing gilt-edged and flowered robes, holding the Christ Child at his waist and supporting a cross with his raised left arm, standing on a waisted faceted shallow pedestal moulded with gilt-edged panels and husks (some minute chipping to extremities)
7 1/8 in. (18 cm.) high
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT BACK
The bearded Saint with a radiating gilt halo, wearing flowing gilt-edged and flowered robes, holding the Christ Child at his waist and supporting a cross with his raised left arm, standing on a waisted faceted shallow pedestal moulded with gilt-edged panels and husks (some minute chipping to extremities)
7 1/8 in. (18 cm.) high
Exhibited
Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.
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