A LARGE PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A GARDENER AND COMPANION

CIRCA 1870, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, INCISED MODEL NOS. 2868 AND 9565, PAINTED 21. AND 24., RESPECTIVELY

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A LARGE PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF A GARDENER AND COMPANION
CIRCA 1870, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, INCISED MODEL NOS. 2868 AND 9565, PAINTED 21. AND 24., RESPECTIVELY
Each modelled standing before a tree-stump, wearing 18th century dress, either a wreath or a small bouquet of flowers in one hand, a basket of flowers under the other arm, he with a spindle at his feet, on a rocky mound square base applied with rocaille scrollwork
19½ in. (49.5 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

See Laurence Mitchell, Meissen Collector's Catalogue, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, p. 43 for a very similar example illustrated in color and p. 123, pl. 31, nos. B65 and 2868 for examples of these figures in the 1910 Meissen catalogue. Also see anon. sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, 5 May 2004, lot 246 and anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 1 December 2003, lot 337 for similar pairs.

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