CIRCA 1725, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AT BACK

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A MEISSEN LARGE PAGODA FIGURE
CIRCA 1725, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AT BACK
Probably modelled by Georg Fritzsche, seated on a throne facing forwards with a moustache, pointed beard and side whiskers, holding an acanthus leaf enriched with gilding, wearing an iron-red, purple and gilt patterned and striped headdress with simulated jewels to the front and a long robe enamelled with exotic Oriental style foliage scrolls, diaper-panels and flowers, the neck, chest and waist with an iron-red and gilt flowerhead border, a jewelled stomacher over his bare stomach, white pantaloons and black shoes on an octagonal stepped base enriched with gilt lines and a band of gilt scrollwork (restoration to neck, beard and one side whisker, surface cracking, slight chip to acanthus leaf and at back, slight wear to gilding)
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Collection d'un Amateur sale, Christie's, Paris, 15 May 2003, lot 467.

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Lot Essay

For a similar example in Dresden see Anette Loesch, Ulrich Pietsch and Friedrich Reicher, Porzellan Sammlung Dresden, Fürher Durch die Städige Ausstellung, Dresden, 1988, p. 201. In 1720 Georg Fritzsche was complimented as 'being responsible for the best moulds' and reference to 'large Pagodas' is made in the inventory of 1719.

Another example of this figure is illustrated by Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellansammlung Gustav von Klemperer, Dresden, 1928, pl. 42, and an example is in the collection of the Boston Museum. Another example from the collection of Jules de Noailles was sold by Sotheby's, Zurich on 24 November 1999, lot 12.

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