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Groupe en porcelaine de Meissen représentant «La Toilette du Matin», vers 1760 A Meissen group of "La Toilette du Matin", circa 1760 image 1

Groupe en porcelaine de Meissen représentant «La Toilette du Matin», vers 1760 A Meissen group of "La Toilette du Matin", circa 1760 image 2 - National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Widener Collection, inv. no. 1942.9.2158

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Groupe en porcelaine de Meissen représentant «La Toilette du Matin», vers 1760

A Meissen group of "La Toilette du Matin", circa 1760

29 October 2025, 14:00 CET

Paris, Avenue Hoche

Sold for €3,840 inc. premium

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Groupe en porcelaine de Meissen représentant «La Toilette du Matin», vers 1760

A Meissen group of "La Toilette du Matin", circa 1760

The lady and child standing by a dressing table with white drapery hanging from a mirror, a candlestick, a comb, boxes and and etui and scissors on a tray, all on a purple tablecloth with paler hangings, the lady wearing a bonnet, turquoise cape, puce dress over an underskirt decorated with indianische Blumen and yellow shoes, the child with a recumbent pug dog at her feet, wearing a yellow dress with a white cape decorated with red flowers and holding a fur-lined hand-warmer, the base moulded with gilt-edged scrollwork and applied with leaves and flowers, 19cm high; 22cm across, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (some restoration)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 25 February 1991, lot 96

Exhibited:
Hohenberg an der Eger, Porzellanikon - Staatliches Museum für Porzellan, 2018-2023

Based on the engraving by Jacques-Phillipe Le Bas published in 1741, after the painting by Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin now in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. Another example of this group is in the Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, Historisches Museum, Basel (Margret Ribbert, "Seit drei Jahrzehnten im Haus zum Kirschgarten - Geschichte und Entwicklung der Porzellansammlung der Pauls-Eisenbeiss-Stiftung in Basel", Keramos 198 (2008): 72, ill. 12).

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