PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. & MRS. RICHARD SCHILLING, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS (LOTS 344-347, 384-386)

A MEISSEN GROUP OF A JAPANESE WOMAN WITH TWO CHILDREN

CIRCA 1750-1760, AFTER A MODEL BY J.J. KÄNDLER ASSISTED BY PETER REINEKE AND FRIEDRICH ELIAS MEYER

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF A JAPANESE WOMAN WITH TWO CHILDREN
CIRCA 1750-1760, AFTER A MODEL BY J.J. KÄNDLER ASSISTED BY PETER REINEKE AND FRIEDRICH ELIAS MEYER
Modeled as a young woman holding a kettle in her right hand, holding a jug in her left hand ready to pour into the teabowl and saucer on an oval tray held in the arms of the young boy at her side, another boy kneeling at her feet and holing a bowl of lemons
6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) high

拍品專文

The present group is from a series of figures inspired by engravings by Jean-Joseph Balechou after a series entitled Les Délices de L'Enfance by François Boucher of circa 1748.

See Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 455, cat. no. 332 for another example very close in modeling and in decoration to the present example. The entry also includes a listing of extant examples.