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Lot 92

A Meissen figure of the Quack Doctor from the 'Cryes of London', circa 1755

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

£10,000 - £15,000

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A Meissen figure of the Quack Doctor from the 'Cryes of London', circa 1755

Modelled by Peter Reinicke, wearing a grey hat, yellow tunic and breeches and a red cloak, holding a flask in his left hand, a monkey on his left, tethered to his waist and seated on the edge of an open medicine chest next to a book and several flasks, the base moulded with gilt-edged scrollwork and applied with leaves and flowers, 14.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (minor restoration)

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Provenance:
Anon. Sale, Bonhams London, 3 December 2008, lot 220

The model is based on the engraving, 'Mounta Banck - Le Charlatan - Il Charlatano', by Pierce Tempest, after Marcellus Laroon the Elder, from the series 'The Cryes of the City of London', which was first published in 1711; see H. Syz et al., Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection (1979), no. 294, for other examples of the model.

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