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Très rare groupe en porcelaine de Meissen représentant une mendiante avec enfant, vers 1736, la monture bronze doré d'époque Louis XV
A very rare Meissen group of a female beggar and child, circa 1736, with Louis XV ormolu mounts
A very rare Meissen group of a female beggar and child, circa 1736, with Louis XV ormolu mounts
29 October 2025, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche€6,000 - €8,000
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Très rare groupe en porcelaine de Meissen représentant une mendiante avec enfant, vers 1736, la monture bronze doré d'époque Louis XV
A very rare Meissen group of a female beggar and child, circa 1736, with Louis XV ormolu mounts
A very rare Meissen group of a female beggar and child, circa 1736, with Louis XV ormolu mounts
Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, seated on a rockwork base playing the hurdy-gurdy with a child standing to her right, wearing a speckled blue headscarf, a ragged iron-red jacket, green skirt and torn, patterned apron, the child with outstretched hand, holding a hat and wearing a yellow jacket and red breeches, on a Louis XV floral scrollwork base applied at the rear with two leaf branch arms with foliate sconces and drip trays, 23cm across; 13.5cm high
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Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 4 June 1996, lot 87
The model is referred to in Kaendler's work records in October 1736: "Ein Bettel Weib mit der Leyer gantz geändert, mit einem kleinen Bettel Buben Wie auch daß ein Trag Korp neben solcher stehen kann, worinnen ein kleines Kind befindet, und hat auf dem Kopf einen Schaubhut" [a beggar woman with a hurdy-gurdy completely changed, with a small beggar boy such that a carry basket can stand next to her in which there is a small child, and with a Schaubhut on the head]. The variation with the basket next to the beggar woman is illustrated in S.-K. Andres-Acevedo, Die autonomen figürlichen Plastiken Johann Joachim Kaendlers und seiner Werkstatt zwischen 1731 und 1748, 2023, II, p. 56, along with another example of this rare variation with the boy (formerly Feist Collection and now lost). Another example was in the Gustav von Klemperer Collection, published in L. Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellansammlung Gustav von Klemperer, 1928, no. 655. Kaendler's entry suggests that this may the earliest version of the group.
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