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TWELVE MEISSEN FIGURES OF ORIENTALS, SIX WITH NODDING HEADS
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TWELVE MEISSEN FIGURES OF ORIENTALS, SIX WITH NODDING HEADS

CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS AT BACKS OF BASES

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TWELVE MEISSEN FIGURES OF ORIENTALS, SIX WITH NODDING HEADS
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS AT BACKS OF BASES
Comprising two models:

Five figures, two with articulated nodding heads, with coloured capes around their shoulders and four wearing leaf hats, each with his torso and belly revealed, with frayed foliate bands below their necks and in long flowered robes, each with one leg and one hand raised, on shaped square mound bases applied with flowers and foliage, one figure holding drum-sticks (three hats with damages and repairs, one hat a porcelain replacement, one hand damaged, edge of one base restored, drummer with head restuck and drum-sticks additions, two with later decoration)

Seven figures, four with articulated nodding heads, with coloured or flowered capes around their necks and shoulders and six wearing leaf hats, each wearing long flowered robes with his torso partially revealed, with one leg and one hand raised, on shaped square mound bases applied with flowers and foliage (damages and repairs, two nodding heads later porcelain replacements, two others with later decoration, one of which is broken through and restored)
Approximately 8¼ in. (21.5 cm.) high (12)
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Lot Essay

An example similar to the first type of figure (showing the whole torso) is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), pl. 225, no. 921, where he attributes them to Kändler or Meyer. Len and Yvonne Adams illustrate both models in Meissen Portrait Figures (london, 1987), p. 181, where they attribute them to Eberlein and Kändler.

A pair of figures similar to the second type of model (and mounted on later elaborate three-light ormolu bases) was sold in these Rooms on 27th June 2005, lot 165.

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