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Lot 194

A pair of Meissen figures of a cavalier and lady companion, late 19th century

18 June 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£1,000 - £1,500

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A pair of Meissen figures of a cavalier and lady companion, late 19th century

After models by M.V. Acier and J.C. Schönheit, the gentleman with green suit and black tricorn hat, holding a red spyglass to his right eye, his companion reading a letter and carrying a muff, wearing a bonnet, a pink fur-lined cape and blue-patterned, lace-edged dress, on scrollwork bases edged with gilding, 20cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised model numbers D.65 and D.66 and painter's numeral 68 on cavalier (staff restuck, tiny chips to lace) (2)

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Modelled by Acier in December 1771 with the help of Schönheit; see T.H. Clarke, Marcolini Meissen Figures, Engraved by Friedrich Elsasser 1785-1792 (1988), nos. 12 and 13 and S. & T. Bergmann, Meissen Figures - Model Numbers A1 - Z99 (2014), nos. 65 and 66.

An engraving showing the flower and lace makers at work on these models, published in 1878 from an account of a tour of the Meissen factory, is illustrated in John Sandon, Meissen Porcelain (2010), p. 75.

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