Details
Modelled by J.J. Kändler as a lady attending to the hair of a young girl, a cat at their feet and various porcelain objects for the toilette on the dressing table
734 in. (18.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Sold Christie's Geneva, 9 November 1987, lot 85.
Literature
Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Collection Franz E. Burda, Meissen, Augsburg, 1997, p.103, fig.23.
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Lot Essay

An example of this model sold Christie's London, 1 December 2015, lot 41. Another sold Bonhams London, 16 May 2007, lot 84.
The group is modelled after an engraving by Le Bas, after a painting by 'La Toilette du Matin' by Chardin.

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