A MEISSEN GROUP OF A NURSE AND TWO CHILDREN modelled by J.F. Eberlein, the nurse in flowered dress and seated on a scroll-moulded chair with cabriole legs with one child on her knee in black and pink hat and puce dress and another seated on a stool at her feet in purple bodice, brown apron and light-brown skirt playing a recorder, on a scroll-moulded mound base enriched with gilding (slight restoration of fingers of child seated on lap, end of recorder lacking), blue crossed swords and dot mark, circa 1765

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF A NURSE AND TWO CHILDREN modelled by J.F. Eberlein, the nurse in flowered dress and seated on a scroll-moulded chair with cabriole legs with one child on her knee in black and pink hat and puce dress and another seated on a stool at her feet in purple bodice, brown apron and light-brown skirt playing a recorder, on a scroll-moulded mound base enriched with gilding (slight restoration of fingers of child seated on lap, end of recorder lacking), blue crossed swords and dot mark, circa 1765
17.5cm. high

Provenance

Karl Mayer, no. 537 (old collection label)

Lot Essay

Cf. Rainer Rückert, op. cit., pl. 251, no. 1025 for the example in the Residenz, Ansbach, see also the examples sold in our London Rooms on 2 July 1990, lot 44 and 15 October 1990, lot 155

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