Sale 8512
New York, Park Avenue
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30 - 31 October 1996
Price realised
USD 920
Estimate
A MEISSEN MODEL OF AN AUSTRIAN FUSILIER CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AT BACK AND PUCE K.H.C. FOR THE KöNIGLICHE HOF-CONDITOREI, MODELLED BY J.J. KAENDLER AND P. REINICKE Shown at attention, wearing a black tricorn hat, blue jacket and white coat, a pistol at his left hip, holding a rifle in his right hand, his ammunition pouch inscribed in gilt with the 'AR' monogram, damages 4½in. (11.4cm.) high
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Cf. Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich 1966, taf. 933, pp. 176 and 226 for a similar figure in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich; see also Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures, London, 1987, p. 41 for a set of eight
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