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Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen répresentant un musicien grec, circa 1750
A Meissen figure of a Greek musician, circa 1750
A Meissen figure of a Greek musician, circa 1750
17 April 2024, 14:00 CEST
Paris, Avenue Hoche€2,000 - €3,000
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Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen répresentant un musicien grec, circa 1750
A Meissen figure of a Greek musician, circa 1750
A Meissen figure of a Greek musician, circa 1750
Modelled by J.J. Kaendler and P. Reinicke, playing the lute, wearing a soft hat edged in iron-red, yellow jacket, white tunic with gilt buttons, a puce sash and brown breeches, on a rectangular brickwork base, 20.3cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to rear of base (instrument restored, some restoration to fingers on both hands and to tassel of hat)
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Based on pl. 70, Grec des Isles de l'Archipel, joüant du Taboura, in the Comte de Ferriol's 'Receuil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant. . . . ', Paris 1714, or the edition published in German by Christoph Weigel the Elder in Nuremberg in 1719.
Another example of this figure is in the Professor Klaus J. Thiemann Collection, Hetjens Museum (W. Beckmann, In Fürstlichen Diensten Komödianten, Sultane und Pagoden aus Meissener Porzellan (n.d.), p. 47.
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