A rare Meissen porcelain figure of a seamstress - image-1

Lot 1379 Dα

A rare Meissen porcelain figure of a seamstress

Auction 1174 - overview Cologne
04.06.2021, 12:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 2.000 € - 2.500 €
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A rare Meissen porcelain figure of a seamstress

Depicted sitting on a cushion on an earth mound base with a sea-green cushion in her lap and a piece of white cloth and a needle in her hands. Wiped base with faint blue crossed swords mark. The thumbs and one of the back tassels of the cushion restored, minor losses of pigment. H 11 cm.
Modelled by Johann Friedrich Eberlein, ca. 1745, the painting slightly later.

Provenance

Private collection, Palatinate.

Literature

For the very similar lace maker figure cf. Kunze-Köllensperger, Collection Franz E. Burda Meißen Figuren, Dosen und Tafelgerät aus dem 18. Jahrhundert, undated and unpaginated, no. 82).
Another very similar lace maker auctioned by Lempertz Cologne auction 994 on 10th May 2012, lot 54, subsequently in the Britzke collection (cat. Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus Bad Pyrmonter Privatbesitz, p. 183).