CIRCA 1765, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND DOT MARK

Details

A MEISSEN GROUP OF A NANNY WITH TWO CHILDREN
CIRCA 1765, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND DOT MARK
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, the nanny in a white headscarf and blue flowered dress, seated on a gilt scroll-moulded yellow upholstered chair, with one child on her knee in a puce riding habit, another seated on a stool at her feet playing a flute, on a shaped gilt scroll moulded base (some minor chipping to extremities)
7 in. (18 cm.) high

Provenance

Karl Mayer Collection, no. 537 (paper Collection label attached)
Dr. Sali Guggenheim Collection, sale Christie's Geneva, 15th May 1995, lot 63.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

Cf. Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), pl. 251, no. 1025 for the example in the Residenz, Ansbach. Also see the examples sold in these Rooms on 2nd July 1990, lot 44, and on 15th October 1990, lot 155.

More from British and Continental Ceramics including Porcelain and

View All