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Lot 173

A Meissen chinoiserie group of a bearded man and child, circa 1745-50

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

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A Meissen chinoiserie group of a bearded man and child, circa 1745-50

Modelled by Peter Reinicke, the man seated, wearing a hat, puce-lined, white robes with indianische Blumen and purple trousers, a child standing next to him wearing yellow robes, on a rockwork base moulded with gilt-edged rocaille and applied with leaves and flowers, 17cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (man's head restuck)

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

The model is after an engraving by J.J. Balechou after Boucher's "Les Délices de l'Enfance". Other examples are illustrated in Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century Vol. I (1972), p.115, and L. and Y. Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures (1987), p.175. A further example was sold in these rooms as part of the Hasse Collection of German porcelain, 8 October 2014, lot 107.

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