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Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 12th June 2002, lot 146;
The Property of the late Miss A.G. Ferris (acquired in the above sale), sold Sotheby's London, 1 December 2003, lot 249
Another example of this figure is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Irwin Untermyer Collection, acc. no. 64.101.130.
See A. von Wallwitz, Celebrating Kaendler Meissen Porcelain Sculpture (2006), pp. 29ff. for a discussion of Schindler, who was Leibhusar or personal hussar to Heinrich Graf von Brühl, one of around 300 servants employed by the famously profligate Prime Minister of Saxony. Three of his servants, including Kammerhusar Schindler, are depicted in a painting of around 1747 now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, inv. no. Mo 1161.