Lot Essay
Cf. Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures (London, 1987), p. 105. See also the example sold by Christie's Geneva on 11th May 1981, lot 91.
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CIRCA 1757, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT BACK, IMPRESSED NUMERALS 16.
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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A PASTRY-SELLER FROM THE 'CRIS DE PARIS' SERIES
CIRCA 1757, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT BACK, IMPRESSED NUMERALS 16.
Modelled by P. Reinicke after a design by Christophe Hüet, standing holding a basket of pastries, in puce-edged white headscarf, puce jacket, pale-yellow apron, flowered skirt and yellow clogs, on a scroll-moulded tree stump mound base enriched in gilding and applied with flowers and foliage (restoration to edge of apron and her right thumb)
5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm.) high
CIRCA 1757, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT BACK, IMPRESSED NUMERALS 16.
Modelled by P. Reinicke after a design by Christophe Hüet, standing holding a basket of pastries, in puce-edged white headscarf, puce jacket, pale-yellow apron, flowered skirt and yellow clogs, on a scroll-moulded tree stump mound base enriched in gilding and applied with flowers and foliage (restoration to edge of apron and her right thumb)
5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm.) high
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