Lot 73
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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A PEASANT
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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A PEASANT

CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AT BACK OF BASE

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A PEASANT
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AT BACK OF BASE
Modelled by J.J. Kändler and J.F. Eberlein, standing with his hands clasped behind his back, wearing a round yellow hat, red sleeveless jacket and brown trousers, on a tree-stump mound base applied with a flower and foliage (minor chipping to flowers and foliage, brim of hat restored, chip to lapel)
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

This unusual figure possibly depicts Christophe Kirshe, the jester companion to Joseph Fröhlic. For a similar figure see Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures (London, 1987), p. 39, fig. XVI, and see p. 203 for an example of the same figure dressed as Harlequin.

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