CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

Details

A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A FRUIT-SELLER FROM THE 'CRIS DE ST. PETERSBURG' SERIES
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Modelled by P. Reinicke, standing before a rocky mound holding a basket of yellow fruit over his left arm, wearing a fur-trimmed yellow hat, turquoise tunic tied with a puce belt, brown breeches and black shoes, on a rocky mound base applied with flowers and foliage (right hand restored, retouching to flaked black enamel on hat and shoes, minor restoration to applied leaves)
6 in. (15.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Leopold and Antoinette Bloch-Bauer, Vancouver.

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Lot Essay

This series was loosely based on adaptions of engravings after the drawings of Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, a student of Boucher, who recorded Russian life of the 18th century. At great personal risk, Le Prince travelled to Russia and made a series of drawings which he later etched. These etchings formed the basis of the Cris de St. Petersburg Series. See the similar figure illustrated by Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Collection Franz E. Burda, Augsburg, 1997, p. 140, no. 61.

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