13th Jul, 2012 10:00 GMT/BST

Summer Catalogue Sale

 
  Lot 92
 

92

A Meissen Porcelain Group of a Shepherd and Shepherdess, circa 1740, modelled by Johann Joachim...

A Meissen Porcelain Group of a Shepherd and Shepherdess, circa 1740, modelled by Johann Joachim Kaendler as a shepherd seated cross legged, wearing a turquoise hat, orange jacket and black breeches, beside a shepherdess wearing yellow bodice and pink skirts, she with a sheep on her lap, his dog at his feet, on a mound base applied with flowers, 16cm high

See Meissen and Other Continental Porcelain, The Collection of Irwin Untermeyer, fig.95 for a similar example, and Christie's, King Street, 16th November 2010, lot 138 for a similar example

Sold for £4,200
Estimated at £2,000 - £3,000


 

Both figures restored through neck. His right arm and hand restored. Her right hand and left shoe restored. Sheep's head restored and lacking ears. Tree stump to rear possibly reduced in height and restored. Very minor chipping to extremities 260412

 


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Auction: Summer Catalogue Sale, 13th Jul, 2012

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