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Groupe en porcelaine de Meissen représentant une mendiante avec deux enfants, vers 1745
A Meissen group of a female beggar with two children, circa 1745
A Meissen group of a female beggar with two children, circa 1745
29 October 2025, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue HocheSold for €5,760 inc. premium
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Groupe en porcelaine de Meissen représentant une mendiante avec deux enfants, vers 1745
A Meissen group of a female beggar with two children, circa 1745
A Meissen group of a female beggar with two children, circa 1745
Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, holding a baby in a cot and with an older child standing by her side holding her hand, wearing a white headscarf, pale-yellow dress and a white apron, the child wearing a fur-lined white coat over a turquoise tunic, with a hand-warmer at his waist, the base applied with leaves and flowers, 23.5cm high, faint crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to rear edge of base (minor restoration)
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Literature:
Rafael, Johannes, "Zur 'Taxa Kaendler'," in Keramos 203/204 (2009): 51 (illustrated)
After the engraving "Croissez, tendres enfants" by Jean Daullé, published in 1739 after a painting by Jacques Dumont, now in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow.
Kaendler's Taxa includes: '1. Zu vorhergemeldten alten Manne gehörige Frau, so in einen länglichten Kästgen ein klein Kind tragt, nebne sich aber einen großen Bettel Buben führet, mit einen Stock in Händen' [1 figure of a woman belonging to the aforementioned old man, carrying a little child in a longish casket, leading a beggar boy at her side, with a cane in his hands]. The group is also mentioned in Kaendler's work records in March 1744: "Eine Bettel Frau nebst 2. Kindern Wie solche in Franckreich zu gehen pflegen gehöriger Maßen zerschnitten und Zum abformen Zu bereitet, Welche neben einem dergleichen Bettelmann zu stehen kömmet" [a beggar woman with two children as they typically appear in France, appropriately prepared for cutting and moulding, which is intended to stand next to a similar (male) beggar].
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