Sale 6925
London
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5 July 2004
Price realised
GBP 1,016
Estimate
A Meissen figure of a grenadier drummer CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT BACK OF BASE, BLACK INK SCRIPT W MARK Modelled standing with his left foot forward and playing the side-drum, his hair tied en queue, wearing a tall peaked yellow, pink and gilt cap with an AR monogram, a white jacket with blue collar, cuffs and lining and gilt buttons, a blue waistcoat and white cross-belt suspending a drum with yellow trim and grey strings, and white gaiters over black boots, a tree-stump behind him, on a square mound base (restored through neck and one drumstick, slight flaking to enamels) 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high
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Guttmann Catalogue, no. 121.
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