A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A FISH-SELLER
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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A FISH-SELLER

CIRCA 1748

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A FISH-SELLER
CIRCA 1748
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, standing barefoot holding a large fish, wearing a black cap, yellow and black bodice, red skirt and blue apron, with a bucket of fish at her feet, on a shaped rocky base applied with leaves and flowers (both thumbs restored, bucket cracked, chipped and restored, minor chipping to applied leaves and flowers on base)
7 7/8 in. (19.8 cm.) high
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A similar example is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810 (Munich, 1966), pl. 224, no. 918, and another by Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures (London, 1987), p. 163.

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