CIRCA 1755, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASE

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A BULGARIAN LADY
CIRCA 1755, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASE
Modelled by J.J. Kändler standing slightly contraposto, her head turned to the right and her left hand resting on her waist, wearing a gilt-ribbed blue conical hat, a long white-lined red robe, her vest with gilt and purple flowerheads, her gilt-edged flowered skirt with a gilt-edged blue belt at the waist, standing before rocks on a circular rockwork base applied with flowers and foliage (chipping to ribbons, foliage and two flowers, slight firing cracks to base and left ankle, minute chip to back of left ear, areas of minute wear)
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A similar example is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), no. 941, and another by Ursula Erichsen-Firle, Figürliches Porzellan, no. 134. A similar example was sold in these Rooms on 15th February 1960, lot 119, and another, formerly in the collection of Major General E.H. Goulburn, on 1st December 1980, lot 265.

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