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A very rare Bow figure of a Street Cook, circa 1757
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A very rare Bow figure of a Street Cook, circa 1757
After the Meissen original from the 'Cris de Paris' series, standing before a brazier filled with hot coals, holding a saucepan in his left hand, his right arm raised to taste the contents from his right forefinger, a towel flung over his left arm, wearing a white hat, patterned waistcoat with brown cuffs, white apron and pale purple breeches, on a scroll-moulded base picked out in gilding, 15.2cm high
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Provenance
Distinguished Private Collection
Exhibited
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
This figure is based upon one of several drawings, some dated 1753, which were commissioned from Christophe Hüet by Johann Joachim Kändler to serve as designs for a Meissen series of the 'Cris de Paris'. The drawing of the Street Cook is illustrated by Martin Eberle, Cris de Paris: Meissener Porzellanfiguren des 18. Jahrhunderts (2001), p.86, no.29, with the Meissen version being modelled by Peter Reinicke. A similar Bow figure of a Street Cook is illustrated by Peter Bradshaw, Bow Porcelain Figures (1992), p.138, pl.126 and another is in the Fitzwilliam Museum (acc. no. C.24-1992). See also that sold by Sotheby's in New York on 10-11 November 2006, lot 686. A Meissen version of the figure was sold by Bonhams on 6 July 2010, lot 183.