Lot 32
  • 32

A Meissen 'Cris de Paris' figure of a poultry-cook circa 1755

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Description

  • crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue
  • 13.5cm., 5 1/4 in.
modelled by Peter Reinicke, plucking a chicken, with a tall basket of feathers to one side, wearing a white hat, shirt and apron and pink breeches, the base edged with scrollwork heightened in gilding and applied with leaves and feathers

Catalogue Note

After the 1753 drawing by Huet inscribed: 'No 28 Ch (?) - ein Koch (?), welcher einen Hahn rupft n 18 1753 - Cuisinier qui plume un poularde' [...a cook plucking a chicken]; quoted by Eberle, op.cit., no.30, where the drawing and another example are reproduced.