TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURES OF AFRICANS

CIRCA 1760, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT THE BACK, HE MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER, SHE MODELED BY P. REINICKE

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TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURES OF AFRICANS
CIRCA 1760, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT THE BACK, HE MODELED BY J.J. KÄNDLER, SHE MODELED BY P. REINICKE
He modeled after an engraving by Watteau as an African servant in pseudo European dress, offering a goblet on a salver; she as an African woman in Turkish dress, balancing a basket of lemons against her left hip; each on a mound base applied with leaves or flowers
5 in. (12.7 cm.) and 5½ in. (14 cm.) high, respectively (2)

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The figure of the servant also features in the Kändler Crinoline group of 1737, "The Handkiss", where he stands to the right rear of a fashionable woman seated with a pug in her lap, a gallant bowing and kissing her left hand. See Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich, 1966, no. 857, Farbtafel. XXIII.

For a comparable example of each model and the engraved source for the figure of the servant, see Yvonne Adams, Meissen Figures, 1730-1775, The Kaendler Period, 2001 revised edition, pp. 196-197, nos. 521-523.

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