TWO MEISSEN GROUPS OF COUNT BRL'S TAILOR AND THE TAILOR'S WIFE, he modelled by J.J. Kändler and she modelled by J.F. Eberlein, he in black tricorn hat, flowered yellow frock-coat with gilt buttons and black shoes, holding a pair of scissors in his right hand and carrying a pannier with two kids on his back and riding a billy goat, the goat with two receptacles over it's shoulder and an iron in it's mouth, the tailor's wife in black mob cap, blue bodice, white apron with puce flowerheads, flowered yellow skirt and red shoes, holding a baby to her breast swaddled in a red-striped bundle and seated side-saddle on a nanny goat with a kid suckling, both on shaped rectangular mound bases applied with flowers and foliage (he with restoration to right wrist, scissors, left thumb and one horn of goat, the base cracked across, she with restoration to tip of one horn and thumbs), blue crossed swords mark, circa 1740

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TWO MEISSEN GROUPS OF COUNT BRL'S TAILOR AND THE TAILOR'S WIFE, he modelled by J.J. Kändler and she modelled by J.F. Eberlein, he in black tricorn hat, flowered yellow frock-coat with gilt buttons and black shoes, holding a pair of scissors in his right hand and carrying a pannier with two kids on his back and riding a billy goat, the goat with two receptacles over it's shoulder and an iron in it's mouth, the tailor's wife in black mob cap, blue bodice, white apron with puce flowerheads, flowered yellow skirt and red shoes, holding a baby to her breast swaddled in a red-striped bundle and seated side-saddle on a nanny goat with a kid suckling, both on shaped rectangular mound bases applied with flowers and foliage (he with restoration to right wrist, scissors, left thumb and one horn of goat, the base cracked across, she with restoration to tip of one horn and thumbs), blue crossed swords mark, circa 1740
he 23cm. high
she 18.5cm. high (2)

Lot Essay

The tailor described in Kändler's Taxa, Nov. 1740: 'Schneider, welcher aug einem Ziegenbock reutet, wie er seinen ganzen werkzeug bei sich führet'

The tailor's wife described by Eberlein August 1740: '1 Schneiderfrau mit einem stillenden kinde auf einer Ziege reitend, nebst einer jungen Ziege, die saugel'

Cf. Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, nos. 885 and 978 for two examples in the Schneider collection and Carl Albiker, Die Meissner Porzellantiere, nos. 265 and 266 for examples in the Schloss Jagerhof, Dusseldorf. Examples were sold in our London Rooms on 2 October 1979, lots 147 and 148, 7 July 1970, lot 154 and 9 June 1986, lots 43 and 44

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