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A MEISSEN GROUP OF 'THE SPANISH LOVERS'
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A MEISSEN GROUP OF 'THE SPANISH LOVERS'

CIRCA 1740, INDISTINCT BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF 'THE SPANISH LOVERS'
CIRCA 1740, INDISTINCT BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, he wearing a black jacket and breeches with red bows, a blue yellow-lined cape and yellow shoes, his companion with a plumed hat, a turquoise and black bodice, a puce and gilt flowered skirt and turquoise underskirt, he holding her left hand and gazing into her eyes, standing on an oval mound base applied with coloured flowers and foliage (he restored through torso, restoration to their clasped hands, brim of her hat and reverse of her skirt, some associated retouching to gilding, small chip to bow on his left shoe, minor restoration and chipping to flowers and leaves)
7½ in. (19 cm.) high
Provenance
With Michele Beiny, New York, from whom it was acquired on January 24, 2009.
Literature
Birte Abraham, Commedia dell'Arte, The Patricia & Rodes Hart Collection of European Porcelain and Faience, Amsterdam, 2010, pp. 50-51.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

This group is one of Kändler's most popular models. It may have been inspired by the engraving 'Le baiser donné' by Pierre Filloeul, after the painting by Jean-Baptiste Pater, or by François Boucher's 'L'Ecole des Maris'. See the example formerly in the von Pannwitz Collection, illustrated by Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century, London, 1972, Vol. I, pp. 202-203 and Meredith Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked, The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture Singapore, 2001, p. 300, no. 83 for the example in the Gardiner Museum, Toronto.

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