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Lot 172

A pair of Meissen figures of beggars playing the hurdy-gurdy, circa 1740

14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A pair of Meissen figures of beggars playing the hurdy-gurdy, circa 1740

Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, both wearing colourful ragged clothes, seated on rockwork and playing a hurdy-gurdy, she wearing a straw hat, 12.2cm high, crossed swords mark in blue to him, faint traces of crossed swords mark in blue and incised numeral to her (extensively restored) (2)

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Provenance:
British Private Collection, assembled in the 1950s and 1960s

For similar examples, see Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century, vol. I (1972), pp. 84-85.

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