A Meissen porcelain figure of a cavalier seated writing at a desk, circa 1745
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
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Description
modelled by J. J. Kändler, wearing a black gold-trimmed jacket and red breeches, a pocket watch and writing implements on the scroll-footed desk, the letter inscribed ‘Madame’, the base applied with flowers and leaves
Height 14.4 cm; 5 ⅝ in
With Mme. Chaumont, Paris (paper label applied to base);
Antiquitäten Metz, Heidelberg, 19 May 2018, lot 598;
Acquired at the above sale.
The figure is listed in Kändler’s Taxa: '1. Figur, einen Monsieur, der einen Liebes-Brieff schreibt, vorstellend, mit der Feder in der Hand am Tische sizend, 6 Thlr.', [1 figure, depicting a gentleman writing a love-letter, seated at a desk with a pen in the hand]; see Sarah-Katharina Andres-Acevedo, Die autonomen figürlichen Plastiken Johann Joachim Kaendlers und seiner Werkstatt zwischen 1731 und 1748, Band II, Stuttgart, 2023, p. 264, no. 31, where a further example from a private collection is illustrated. Another, in the Porzellansammlung, Dresden, is illustrated by Ulrich Pietsch and Claudia Banz in Triumph der blauen Schwerter, Leipzig, 2010, p. 314, cat. no. 341.
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