Lot 646 D α

A Meissen porcelain figure of a fisherwoman with carp.

Auction 1048 - overview Cologne
15.05.2015, 17:00 - Porcelain and Ceramics
Estimate: 4.500 € - 5.500 €
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A Meissen porcelain figure of a fisherwoman with carp.

Depicted standing beside a barrel of smaller fish on an earth base encrusted with flowers and foliage and proferring a large carp in both hands. Unglazed, unmarked underside. Chips to the thumb, tip of the foot, one flower; the fish in the barrel restored. H 19.4 cm.
Modelled by Johann Joachim Kaendler, ca. 1740 - 48.

Literature

Further examples in the Franz E. Burda collection (in Kunze-Köllensperger without year, no. 79) and in the collection of the Ansbach residence (in: Rückert, Munich 1966, no. 918). Here a reference to Kaendler's records between 1740 and 1748: "1 Frau einen Karpffen in der Hand haltend, neben sich aber ein Fäßgen, worinnen Aale liegen, stehen habend, welche zu dem Fischer accordiren soll, 3 Thlr." (ibid. p. 174).