Lot 122
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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A DANCER
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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A DANCER

CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A DANCER
CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, standing with her left foot raised and her arms supporting her apron, wearing a ribbon-tied pale lilac bonnet, a white and blue bodice with gilt buttons, a turquoise skirt and an apron decorated with indianische Blumen on a pale-pink ground, on a rococo scroll-moulded mound base applied with two flower-sprays (restoration to ribbons, right thumb, apron cracked and restored beside left hand, small scroll restored at reverse of base, small restored chip to hem of skirt, slight wear to gilding)
7 3/8 in. (18.8 cm.) high
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

See Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich, 1966, pl. 247, no. 1008 for a similar example and where he cites Kändler's Taxa 1740-48: '1 Bauer Mädel stehend, mit beyden Händen die Schürtze aufhebend um allerhand drein zu legen und zum Zucker Salz oder Senff zu gebrauchen, 3 Thlr'.

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