Lot 71
71
A MEISSEN MODEL OF AN AUSTRIAN FUSILIER

Details
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

Lot Essay

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