Seated at a table writing in an account book, with a snuff-box in her left hand and provisions by her feet, including a basket of wine bottles
6¾ in. (17 cm.) high

Acquired from H. Blairman & Sons, London, October 1951.

D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. IV, pp. 50-51, no. 24.

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Lot Essay

This Kändler model of a merchant's wife is rather well known. I had seen examples of it in a number of museums. I have always felt that it was one of the best Meissen pieces we bought.
D.R.

Kändler modeled the 'Prudent wife' circa 1757-58 and was inspired by the engraving L'oeconome after a painting by Jean-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779). An identical model is illustrated and discussed in A. Gräfin von Wallwitz, Celebrating Käendler, Munich, 2006, cat. 28.