Lot Essay
Two details of this group are illustrated on the previous page.
This group is recorded in Kändler's Taxa of 1737 and exists with a number of variations to the figural composition. The group was inspired by an engraving by Laurent Cars after Boucher depicting a scene from Molière's comedy 'Le Sicilien ou l'Amour peintre'. A similar group in the Rijksmuseum is illustrated by Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 428-429, cat. no. 314.
This group is recorded in Kändler's Taxa of 1737 and exists with a number of variations to the figural composition. The group was inspired by an engraving by Laurent Cars after Boucher depicting a scene from Molière's comedy 'Le Sicilien ou l'Amour peintre'. A similar group in the Rijksmuseum is illustrated by Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 428-429, cat. no. 314.