Lot 129
129
A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A BEGGAR MUSICIAN
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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A BEGGAR MUSICIAN

CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A BEGGAR MUSICIAN
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, wearing a black and white headcloth, a torn and faded iron-red-lined brown jacket and white skirt, a flask resting on her ragged apron, holding bagpipes and seated on a rock (restoration to mouthpiece of bagpipes, flask and right foot)
5 3/8 in. (13.2 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Another example of this figure was sold in these Rooms (with the companion figure) on 10th July 2007, lot 176. The examples in the Franz Burda Collection are illustrated by Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Collection Franz E. Burda (1997), p. 118, nos. 44-45.

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