Sale 1716
New York
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24 October 2006
Price realised
USD 2,640
Estimate
A MATCHED PAIR OF MEISSEN MODELS OF A SHEPHERD AND A SHEPHERDESS LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, INCISED 4. TO EACH, IMPRESSED 136 AND 120, PAINTED 7. AND 6., RESPECTIVELY, AFTER THE MODELS BY J.J. KÄNDLER Each modelled standing in 18th century dress, next to a tree-stump, he holding a piece of bread out to his attendant dog, a sheep at his feet, she with a sheep at her hip, a staff in her hand, each on a rocky rocaille-scroll base 11¾ in. (29.8 cm.) high (2)
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See the Meissen Collector's Catalogue, 1910, pl. 1, no. 4 for illustrations of these models.
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