CIRCA 1745-50, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASES

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THREE MEISSEN FIGURES OF SOLDIERS
CIRCA 1745-50, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BACK OF BASES
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, each standing before a tree-stump on a mound base, holding the butt of his musket on the ground, his right hand holding the barrel (minor chipping and restoration)
4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

See Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich, 1966, pl. 226, no. 933 for an example of these models in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, which the author describes as an Austrian fusilier. See also Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures, London, 1987, p. 41 for a set of eight soldiers of the same type, including the same model as those in the present lot.

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