A Meissen porcelain figure of ‘The Careful Housewife’, circa 1755
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September 17, 01:15 PM GMT
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2,000 - 3,000 EUR
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Description
modelled by J. J. Kändler, seated at a table writing in an account book, with a snuff box in left hand and an inkwell and pounce pot on the table, with a basket of wine bottles at her side, a dome of sugar and various other bundles strewn under the table, on a gilt scroll-edged base, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue
Height 16 cm; 6 ⅜ in
This figure is derived from an engraving entitled 'L'Oeconome' by Jacques Philippe Le Bas (1707-83), published in 1754 and after a 1747 painting by Chardin, an example of which is held in the British Museum, London, museum no. 1875,0710.414.
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