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Lot 89

A Meissen group of cherry-pickers, circa 1770

6 December 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£1,800 - £2,200

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A Meissen group of cherry-pickers, circa 1770

Modelled by J.J. Kaendler with a seated cavalier and a lady gathering the fruit in an apron, a full basket of fruit between them, a child seated on a branch of the fruit tree beside them and another child seated on the ground behind the tree, the base moulded with gilt-edged scrollwork and applied with leaves and flowers, 27.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (restored)

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Another example is illustrated in L. and Y. Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures (1987), plate XXI, and a further one is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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