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A Meissen group of 'Spanish Lovers' circa 1740-41
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description
- crossed swords mark in undergalze-blue beneath skirt
- 18cm., 7in.
modelled by J.J. Kändler, the gentleman in Spanish costume, a blue hat tucked under his left arm, wearing a turquoise doublet with incised scrolls and yellow breeches, his companion wearing a yellow hat, puce bodice, crinoline skirt painted with deutsche Blumen, and a red underskirt, the base applied with leaves and flowers
Provenance
René Fribourg Collection, New York;
his sale in these Rooms, 15th October 1963, lot 482; and 9th March 1965, lot 165
Catalogue Note
Similar models are illustrated by R.Jansen (ed.), Commedia dell'Arte Fest der Komödianten, no.27 (see p.31 for a discussion of the group's title), and in the Pauls Collection, Basel, illustrated by I.Menzhausen, In Porzellan verzaubert, p.187. The model is not recorded in Kändler's surviving work records.