A MEISSEN FIGURE GROUP OF A PEASANT WOMAN WITH TWO CHILDREN
A MEISSEN FIGURE GROUP OF A PEASANT WOMAN WITH TWO CHILDREN

CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT THE BACK, MODELLED BY JOHANN FRIEDRICH EBERLEIN, AFTER AN ENGRAVING OF A PAINTING BY DAULLE

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A MEISSEN FIGURE GROUP OF A PEASANT WOMAN WITH TWO CHILDREN
CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT THE BACK, MODELLED BY JOHANN FRIEDRICH EBERLEIN, AFTER AN ENGRAVING OF A PAINTING BY DAULLE
The young mother wearing a dark-blue dress edged in ermine balancing an infant in a cradle against her left hip and holding the left hand of a boy in fur-trimmed pale-yellow gown and brown jacket, a muff tied around his waist, on mound base applied with flowerheads
9 1/8 in. (23.1 cm.) high

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See Yvonne Adams, Meissen Figures 1730-1775 The Kaendler Years, Atglen, 2001, p. 166, No. 447 for a similar example.

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