Sale 6432
London
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9 July 2001
Price realised
GBP 1,058
Estimate
Two Meissen figures of Cupid in disguise Circa 1750, the first with blue crossed swords to base, the second with blue crossed swords at back The first modelled as a girl in a fur-lined pink coat holding a snuff-box in her left hand, the second as a boy scantily draped in a pink-lined turquoise robe, wearing a powdered wig, pince-nez and holding an enormous syringe, both standing on scroll-mounded mound bases (the first with restoration to right hand, the second with restoration to pince-nez and nozzle of syringe and with chips to fingers of left hand) 3½ in. (9 cm.) high (2)
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For a similar model of Cupid with a syringe see Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (1966), p.248, no. 1015.
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Pre-Lot Text
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A special preview of selected highlights from our upcoming Post-War and Contemporary Art online auction, to be offered 30 June
With her high-piled ringlets, gold earrings and heavy black kohl, the woman portrayed in this funerary painting offers a glimpse of life almost 2,000 years ago