A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A GARDENER, in pink-lined flowered yellow jacket, white shirt and cuffs and purple breeches, holding a pot-plant and standing before a tree-stump and a tub of flowers on a scroll-moulded mound base applied with flowers and foliage and enriched in gilding (restoration to his left hand and cuff, slight restoration and chips to flowers and foliage), circa 1750
Details
A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A GARDENER, in pink-lined flowered yellow jacket, white shirt and cuffs and purple breeches, holding a pot-plant and standing before a tree-stump and a tub of flowers on a scroll-moulded mound base applied with flowers and foliage and enriched in gilding (restoration to his left hand and cuff, slight restoration and chips to flowers and foliage), circa 1750
14cm. high
Provenance
Karl Mayer no. 567 (old collection label)
Lot Essay
A similar pair were sold by Christie's Geneva on 11 May 1981, lot 119
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