CIRCA 1745

Details

A PAIR OF MEISSEN BOUQUETIERE FIGURES
CIRCA 1745
The woman in a lace cap, a white blouse with turquoise and gilt cuffs and a flowered pale-yellow apron, standing with a pannier strapped to her back, the man in a turquoise cap and flowered white frock-coat, standing with his left foot on a marrow and a large basket on his left knee, each on mound bases applied with flowers and foliage, the basket and pannier with piereced apertures (lady broken through waist, pannier and left wrist and restuck, crack to apron, skirt and rock, his left arm, basket handles and section of base restuck, crack around basket and through left thigh, restoration to hat, both with restoration to some fingers and with further small damages and minor repairs)
10.5 in. (27 cm.) and 11 1/16 in. (28.2 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

With Segal, Basel.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

Other pairs of these figures were sold in these Rooms on 30th November 1970, lots 100-101 from the A.C.J. Wall Collection, and on 17th October 1977, lot 166. Another pair from the Emma Budge Collection was sold by Graupe, Berlin, on 29th September 1937, lot 832. For the pair in the Rijksmuseum, see Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, 2000), pp. 438-439, nos. 320-321.

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