Lot 1000 D α

A pair of Meissen porcelain figures of street musicians.

Auction 1056 - overview Cologne
13.11.2015, 14:30 - Porcelain, Ceramics, Furniture, Bronzes, Carpets
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
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A pair of Meissen porcelain figures of street musicians.

A pair of Meissen porcelain figures of street musicians. A male harlequin playing the bagpipes and a Tyrolese peasant girl playing a hurdy-gurdy. Both hats and small parts of the instruments restored, one finger and the mouthpiece of the bagpipes lost, chips to the leaves and the tips of the man's shoes. H 13 and 12.5 cm.
Both formed ca. 1740 - 45, modelled by Johann Joachim Kaendler.

Provenance

Belgian aristocratic ownership.

Literature

Three table centrepieces with these figures in: v. Wallwitz, Celebrating Kaendler, Munich 2006, p. 55 ff. The first figure of a Tyrolese girl was modelled by Kaendler in July 1736 and ammended numerous times in the following years. Von Wallwitz presumes the Harlequin model with the pipes to be based on an earlier model predating the workshop records.