Lot 398
  • 398

A Meissen group of 'The Betrothal' circa 1750

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Description

  • height 5 7/8 in.
  • 15 cm
modelled by Johann Joachim Kändler, the gentleman with a white suit and blue waistcoat, his tricorn under his left arm, greeting the lady, who wears a crinoline dress painted with indianische Blumen and yellow cuffs, a putto with a torch to her left, the base applied with leaves and flowers, traces of crossed swords mark in blue. Tree with additional putto lacking at rear, putto's torch broken.

Catalogue Note

Modelled by Kändler in 1747; another example is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, no. 883.