CIRCA 1741-45, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A PIEDMONTESE BAGPIPER
CIRCA 1741-45, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Modelled by J.J. Kändler after an engraving by Jacques Dumont, wearing a plumed hat, white cape and an orange and yellow sleeveless coat, on a tree-stump base applied with flowers and foliage (broken through base, restored to brim of hat and extremities)
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Another example of this figure is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810 (Munich, 1966), p. 171, pl. 218, no. 893, and another by Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures (London, 1987), p. 54. An example was sold by Sotheby's London on 15 June 1965, lot 143, and another in these Rooms on 18 November 2008, lot 128.

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