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Groupe 'crinoline' en porcelaine de Meissen d'un couple d'amoureux s'embrassant, XIXe siècleA Meissen crinoline group of lovers embracing, 19th century image 1
Groupe 'crinoline' en porcelaine de Meissen d'un couple d'amoureux s'embrassant, XIXe siècleA Meissen crinoline group of lovers embracing, 19th century image 2 - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1942, acc. no. 42.24(19)
Groupe 'crinoline' en porcelaine de Meissen d'un couple d'amoureux s'embrassant, XIXe siècleA Meissen crinoline group of lovers embracing, 19th century image 3
Groupe 'crinoline' en porcelaine de Meissen d'un couple d'amoureux s'embrassant, XIXe siècleA Meissen crinoline group of lovers embracing, 19th century image 4
Groupe 'crinoline' en porcelaine de Meissen d'un couple d'amoureux s'embrassant, XIXe siècleA Meissen crinoline group of lovers embracing, 19th century image 5
Groupe 'crinoline' en porcelaine de Meissen d'un couple d'amoureux s'embrassant, XIXe siècleA Meissen crinoline group of lovers embracing, 19th century image 6
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Groupe 'crinoline' en porcelaine de Meissen d'un couple d'amoureux s'embrassant, XIXe siècle

A Meissen crinoline group of lovers embracing, 19th century

17 April 2024, 14:00 CEST
Paris, Avenue Hoche

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Groupe 'crinoline' en porcelaine de Meissen d'un couple d'amoureux s'embrassant, XIXe siècle

A Meissen crinoline group of lovers embracing, 19th century


After the model by J.J. Kaendler, the gentleman wearing a gilt-edged blue jacket, gilt-edged waistcoat decorated with indianische Blumen and black breeches, the lady wearing a bonnet with flowers on a yellow ground, a crinoline dress decorated with indianische Blumen and a broad lavender-ground border with gilt strapwork, flowers and foliage, and yellow cuffs and bodice, the base applied with leaves and flowers, 20cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to rear of base (firing cracks to base and to her dress, small chips)

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Provenance:
Fritz Katz Collection, New York

Based on the engraving by Laurent Cars, after F. Boucher, "Dom Garcie de Navarre ou le prince Jaloux", from the series Gravures de Boucher pour les Oeuvres de Molière (Figures de Boucher pour Molière) published in 1734.

Other 18th-century examples of this very rare group are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Irwin Untermyer Collection, acc. no. 64.101.58; and in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin (published by S. Bursche, Meissen Steinzeug und Porzellan (1980), no. 307).

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