A Meissen figure of a pilgrim, circa 1750-55

modelled by Peter Reinicke, standing before a tree stump holding a staff with a gourd in his left hand, with scallop-shells attached to the broad rim of his puce rimmed yellow hat and black cape, wearing a yellow jacket and turquoise knee breeches, raised on a scroll-moulded mound base applied with flowers and leaves, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to rear of base, impressed number 3,

With Kunsthandel Dr. Dagmar Holz, Königswinter

Illustrated by Yvonne Adams, Meissen Figures, 1730-1775, The Kaendler Period, 2004, p. 148, no. 402

some restoration to lower half of staff.Minor restoration to brim of hat.
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A similar example of this model is illustrated by Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Darmstaedter Berlin, Europäisches Porzellan des XVIII., edited by Prof. Dr. Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1933, no. 70, sold by Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 21st-26th March 1925