A Meissen porcelain figure as an allegory of winter - image-1

Lot 1377 Dα

A Meissen porcelain figure as an allegory of winter

Auction 1174 - overview Cologne
04.06.2021, 12:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €

A Meissen porcelain figure as an allegory of winter

Figure of a small boy / putto dressed in a fur-lined blue coat, blowing on a coal basin held in his hands. Wiped, unmarked base. Minor restored chips to one corner of the base, the fingers and toes and the handle of the coal basin. H 13 cm.
Modelled by Johann Joachim Kaendler, March 1741, produced and decorated soon after.

Provenance

Private collection, Palatinate.

Literature

A further example is housed in the Porzellansammlung Zwinger Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, inv. no. PE 538.