A MEISSEN CRINOLINE GROUP OF LOVERS EMBLEMATIC OF MATRIMONY
A MEISSEN CRINOLINE GROUP OF LOVERS EMBLEMATIC OF MATRIMONY

CIRCA 1737, MODELLED BY J.J. KANDLER

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A MEISSEN CRINOLINE GROUP OF LOVERS EMBLEMATIC OF MATRIMONY
Circa 1737, modelled by J.J. Kandler
Modelled seated and embracing, a caged canary at the right, she wearing a yellow-lined flowered mantua and iron-red edged purple underskirt, he wearing gilt-edged iron-red jacket and black breeches, the base encrusted with white flowers
5 in. (12.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 17 November 1999, lot 435

Lot Essay

The present model was conceived in late 1736, the earliest in the great series of crinoline groups modelled by Kandler over the next ten years. See The Pauls Collection, pp. 192-193 for another example and a complete discussion of the comparative material. See also Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and Other Continental Porcelain, Faience and Enamel, The Collection of Irwin Untermyer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1956, pl. 20, fig. 39; The Nyffler Collection of German Porcelain, Christie's, London, 9 June 1986; and Anonymous sale, Christie's Geneva, 14 November 1988, lot 66 for other examples.

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