Lot 60
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A MEISSEN GROUP OF THE CHINESE FAMILY
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A MEISSEN GROUP OF THE CHINESE FAMILY

CIRCA 1750

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF THE CHINESE FAMILY
CIRCA 1750
Modelled by P. Reinicke with a child seated on a high table, the parents either side wearing long gilt-edged robes tied with yellow sashes, the father wearing a conical hat and ringing a bell, the mother holding a small parasol, her left hand resting on another child's head, the child playing with a monkey, on a shaped oval mound base applied with flowers and foliage (restoration to his hat, bell, mother's right wrist, parasol handle and tip of rattle [?] in seated child's hand, slight chipping to flowers and foliage, areas of slight wear, underside with extended firing crack)
6 3/8 in. (16.3 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

(Underside with red 27 inventory number).

For a similar example from the Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, see Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century (Fribourg, 1972), Vol. I, pp. 110-111.

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