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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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CIRCA 1750, THE FIRST WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS TO BASE, THE SECOND WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AT BACK
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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)
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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