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Lot 40

Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen représentant une persane, circa 1750

A Meissen figure of a Persian woman, circa 1750

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

€2,000 - €3,000

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Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen représentant une persane, circa 1750

A Meissen figure of a Persian woman, circa 1750


Modelled by J.J. Kaendler and P. Reinicke, holding her long hair with her right hand, wearing a white headscarf with a jewel on her forehead, a yellow-lined lavender tunic with gilt flower sprigs and buttons and a purple-striped sash, white stockings and red shoes, the base applied with leaves and flowers, 21.7cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to rear of base (minor chips to leaves)

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Based on pl. 91, Femme Persienne, 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. 43.

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