Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 85
A Meissen group of a Japanese woman and child, mid 18th century
14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£8,000 - £12,000
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A Meissen group of a Japanese woman and child, mid 18th century
Modelled by J.J. Kaendler and P. Reinicke, the woman wearing a purple and green headdress and short white robes edged with iron-red scrollwork over a yellow skirt, holding a tray with a teapot and teabowl in her right hand and holding the hand of a small child with her left, the child wearing purple and red robes, a bird perched on his left hand, 13.8cm high, impressed 28. (her nose and right wrist restored)
Footnotes
Another example is illustrated in Karl Berling, Meissen China (1910), fig.123, no. 2473.
