A rare Meissen porcelain figure of a dancing Tyrolean lady - image-1
A rare Meissen porcelain figure of a dancing Tyrolean lady - image-2
A rare Meissen porcelain figure of a dancing Tyrolean lady - image-1A rare Meissen porcelain figure of a dancing Tyrolean lady - image-2

Lot 897 Dα

A rare Meissen porcelain figure of a dancing Tyrolean lady

Auction 1152 - overview Cologne
29.05.2020, 14:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 3.500 € - 4.000 €
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A rare Meissen porcelain figure of a dancing Tyrolean lady

Figure of a young lady captured in a lively dance step on a rocaille base encrusted with flowers and foliage. Her apron finely decorated with "indianische blumen", the billowing skirt in purple, the jacket blue with a yellow hem. Blue crossed swords mark to the back of the base, unglazed underside, pressnummer 10. The hat, part of the hem of the jacket and one leaf restored, a minor retouch to one of the ribbons. H 18.5 cm.
Around or shortly after 1740, the model by Johann Joachim Kaendler.

This figure is listed in Kaendler's "taxa" as "I. of the same [Tyrolean girl] depicted dancing, holding her apron with both hands 2 talers 12 groschen".

Literature

Cf. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710 - 1810, Munich 1966, no. 1008.
For Kaendler's taxa see Menzhausen/Karpinski, In Porzellan verzaubert. Die Figuren Johann Joachim Kaendlers in Meißen aus der Sammlung Pauls-Eisenbeiss Basel, Basel 1993, p. 195.