A Meissen figure of St John Nepomuk circa 1750

modelled by J.J. Kaendler and P. Reinicke, the saint wearing a puce-lined black habit over a white chemise decorated with gilt lacework at the hem, on an octagonal base decorated with moulded gilt scrollwork cartouches, faint underglazed blue crossed swords mark

With Pietro Accorsi, Turin
Acquired from these rooms, Collection From the Castle of Catagneto Po, near Turin, and from other French Residences, 21 March 2007, lot 129A

left hand broken at the wrist, the cross a wooden replacement, haircrack to top of pedestal
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The entry for this figure in the Kaendler's Taxa in Febuary 1744 reads; 'Eine Nepomocenus Fügur Von ordinärer größe auf einem Postament stehend Inventiret und aus gestellt, selbigen aber Vollends zur aus arbeitung dem Bildhauer Reinickemn gegeben, hält in der linken Hand den gecreuzigten Christum und ist in gehörigen Habit gekleidet.'

Saint John Nepomuk (circa 1340-1393), a patron saint of Bohemia, was canonised in 1729 by Pope Benedict XIII.