A Meissen porcelain pastoral group - image-1

Lot 753 Dα

A Meissen porcelain pastoral group

Auction 1140 - overview Cologne
15.11.2019, 14:00 - Decorative Arts II
Estimate: 12.000 € - 14.000 €

A Meissen porcelain pastoral group

A group depicting a shepherd and a shepherdess arm in arm on an earth mound base. She holds a lamb in her lap and a dog sits beside her. The clothing very finely decorated, he wears a purple justaucorps painted with tendrils, she a yellow skirt with "indianische blumen". Unglazed base with blue crossed swords mark and blue cross. Restored. H 15.2 cm.
Model by Johann Joachim Kaendler after an engraving by François Boucher, ca. 1744 - 50.

Literature

Cf. an identical group in the Pauls-Eisenbeiss-Stiftung near Menzhausen, pub. in: Porzellan verzaubert, Basel 1993, p. 149, with an excerpt from Kaendler's workshop records: "1 Groupgen, ein Frauenzimmer in einer Andrijan wohlgepuzt vorstellend, ingl. einen Schäffer in seinem Habit wohl angekleidet, welche einander embrassieren, worbey noch ein Schäffgen zu befinden."