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Lot 191*

A very rare Meissen group of a lady and gentleman playing a duet, first half 19th century

4 July 2024, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A very rare Meissen group of a lady and gentleman playing a duet, first half 19th century

After the model by J.J. Kaendler, seated with a pug between them on a gilt-edged canapé elaborately moulded with foliage below a mask flanked by pierced panels and scrollwork, the lady playing the lute, wearing a yellow-lined lavender coat with purple flower sprigs, a salmon-pink crinoline dress with flower sprigs and a blue underskirt, the gentleman playing the flute, wearing a white jacket with gilt-ground cuffs reserved with flowers and a similarly decorated waistcoat, 23cm across; 14.7cm high, crossed swords mark in blue (one leg and back edge of cannape restored)

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The model is first mentioned in Kaendler's work records in November and December 1737. In April 1743, Ehder mentions that he reworked the back of the canapé with French decorations, and in August 1743, Kaendler records that he repaired the group 'for His Majesty the King'; quoted by S.-K. Andres-Acevedo, Die autonomen figürlichen Plastiken Johann Joachim Kaendler, II (2023), no. 152. An early version of the group with slightly more elaborate canapé is in the Metropolitan Musem of Art, New York, acc. no. 1974.356.356; another is in the Pauls Collection, Basel (I. Menzhausen, In Porzellan verzaubert (1988), pl. 216).

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