A Meissen porcelain figure of a Polish lady - image-1

Lot 653 Dα

A Meissen porcelain figure of a Polish lady

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Ceramics
Estimate: 3.500 € - 5.000 €
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A Meissen porcelain figure of a Polish lady

Rare crinoline figure. She wears a black headscarf, holds a closed fan, and is dressed in a short, fur-lined purple jacket over a skirt with Oriental flowers on a yellow ground. Smoothed base with indistinct blue crossed swords mark. The head and the hand holding the fan restored. H 15.2 cm.
Mid-18th C., model by Johann Joachim Kaendler and Johann Friedrich Eberlein.

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Another example formerly in the Gustav von Klemperer collection (Dresden 1928, no. 543). Schnorr von Carolsfeld describes in the text that the "model was started by Kaendler in December 1743, finished by Eberlein in January 1744" (p. 139). The figure could actually be the one mentioned in Kaendler's work reports in December 1743: "5.A Polish lady in clay, ready to model, to the warehouse." (Pietsch, Leipzig 2002, p. 100).
See also Pietsch (ed), Schwanenservice. Meissener Porzellan für Heinrich Graf von Brühl, Dresden-Berlin 2000, p. 235, " 3 Polish ladies." in the 1753 inventory of Pförten palace.