Lot 1465 D α

A Meissen porcelain pastoral group

Auction 1096 - overview Cologne
17.11.2017, 10:00 - Deorative Arts
Estimate: 10.000 € - 15.000 €
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A Meissen porcelain pastoral group

Depicting an enamoured shepherd couple with a dog and sheep on a white earth mound base encrusted with coloured flowers. The gentleman wears a yellow hat and gold-trimmed green jacket, the lady a yellow bodice and iron red floral patterned skirt. Unglazed underside without crossed swords mark, impressed 68, incised marks. Restored, subsequent minor chips to the flowers. H 15.5 cm.
Model by Johann Joachim Kaendler, late 1730s / 1st half 1740s after a motif by François Boucher, formed mid-18th C.

Provenance

The Nyffeler Collection, Switzerland.

Literature

Cf. an identical group in the Pauls Collection, Riehen (cat. Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts vol. I, Frankfurt 1967, p. 266 f.), and a third in the collection of Dr. Ernst Schneider (in Rückert, Munich 1966, no. 869). This publication also includes a reference to Kaendler’s workshop records “1 small group, a woman finely dressed in an Andrijan and a shepherd in his garb embracing one another with a lamb, 12 taler” (ibid. 168). The author rightly notes that the lady is not wearing an Adrienne, thus there must have been at least one other version of this group.