Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture
Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture
A MEISSEN FIGURE GROUP, 'THE HAND KISS' CIRCA 1738-40
Auction Closed
April 16, 08:57 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
THE COLLECTION OF MELINDA AND PAUL SULLIVAN
A MEISSEN FIGURE GROUP, 'THE HAND KISS'
CIRCA 1738-40
modeled by Johann Joachim Kändler, as a cavalier kissing the left hand of a shepherdess in front of a tree, his companion holding a crook in her right hand, the mound base with three recumbent sheep and a seated dog, applied with leaves and flowers, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue
height 10 ¼ in.
26 cm
Kändler's Taxa or work records between 1st April and the end of July 1738 note: 'nebst einem Gesellen', mentions 'Ein sauber angekleideter Schäfer mit deßen Campagnionin, welche er bey der Hand führet und selbige Baum mit 2. ausgearbeiteten Schäfgen und einem Hund', cited by Ingelore Menzhausen and Järgen Karpinski, In Porzellan verzaubert: Die Figuren Johann Joachim Kändlers in Meissen aus der Sammlung Pauls-Eisenbeiss,
Basel, 1993, pp. 156-57.
Examples of this model were included in the renowned pre-war European porcelain Collections of Fritz Burckhardt, sold, Paul Cassirer and Hugo Helbing, Munich, December 8, 1925, no. 81; Siegfried Salz, Berlin, sold, Cassirer and Helbing, Munich, March 23-27, 1929, no. 88; Emma Budge, Hamburg, sold, Paul Graupe, Berlin, September 27-29, 1937, lot 790; and Walter von Pannwitz, Munich, which subsequently entered the Collection of Jörg Nelte and was sold at Sotheby's London, June 17, 1997, lot 114.
Sotheby’s Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.