CIRCA 1757-58, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

Name: A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF 'THE GOOD HOUSEWIFE'
Brand: CIRCA 1757-58, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Price: 5500.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 6,930

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF 'THE GOOD HOUSEWIFE'

CIRCA 1757-58, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

Price Realised GBP 6,930

Modelled by J.J. Kändler, seated at a table writing in an account book, another resting on her lap, a snuff-box in her left hand, a desk-set with writing implements, a bell and scissors on the table, at her feet a wicker basket filled with bottles and various tied packages under the table, on a scroll-moulded mound base enriched in gilding
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

This figure was modelled by Kändler circa 1757-58 and is derived from an engraving titled L'oeconome by J.P. Le Bas (1707-83), which was published in 1754 and which was after a painting by Jean-Siméon Chardin. For an illustration of the engraving see W.B. Honey, Dresden China, London, 1934, p. 119, pl. LI (a). See also Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century, London, 1972, p. 98 for a similar figure and details of comparable examples. The model is also illustrated and discussed by Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, Celebrating Käendler, Munich, 2006, cat. 28.