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A Meissen group of the enamoured shepherd and shepherdess
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A Meissen group of the enamoured shepherd and shepherdess

CIRCA 1740

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A Meissen group of the enamoured shepherd and shepherdess
Circa 1740
Modelled by J.J. Kändler as a shepherd and a shepherdess, he in a gilt-edged red hat, yellow jacket, white shirt and blue breeches, she in a gilt-edged turquoise and black bodice, white apron and apricot skirt with a richly decorated hem with indianische Blumen enriched with gilding, she leaning on his shoulder and holding a sheep on her lap, he holding her hand with his pug-dog seated at his feet, on a shaped oval shallow mound base applied with flowers and foliage (his right arm restuck at elbow, restoration to right hands, sheep's head and pug's right ear, chipping to flowers and foliage, her left foot, dog's collar, ribbon of his hat, her cuffs and hem of skirt at back, extended firing crack from base to her skirt at front)
6¼ in. (16 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

See Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (1966), p. 209, no. 869 for a similar model, and another in the Pauls Collection, Basel, illustrated in Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century (London 1972), pp. 238-239. Kändler's Taxa records the group as '1 cavalier kissing a shepherdess under a green tree' and it was produced in two forms, one with a tree and one, as with the present lot, without. The group without the tree is the rarer of the two versions.

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