A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF WOODCUTTERS modelled by J.J. Kändler and P.Reinicke, one in fur-lined yellow hat, ermine-lined white jacket, green shirt and dark-red breeches, standing astride a pile of logs sawing a piece of wood on a support, the other in black hat, white shirt and waistcoat and brown breeches, standing chopping wood with an axe on white mound bases (the first with restoration to saw), one with blue crossed swords mark, circa 1745

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF WOODCUTTERS modelled by J.J. Kändler and P.Reinicke, one in fur-lined yellow hat, ermine-lined white jacket, green shirt and dark-red breeches, standing astride a pile of logs sawing a piece of wood on a support, the other in black hat, white shirt and waistcoat and brown breeches, standing chopping wood with an axe on white mound bases (the first with restoration to saw), one with blue crossed swords mark, circa 1745
14cm. high (2)

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Cf. K. Butler, Meissner Porzellanplastik des 18 Jahrhunderts die Sammlung der Ermitage, nos. 87 and 88; similar examples were sold in our London Rooms on 26 March 1984, lot 245 and 9 June 1986, lot 64

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