£500 - £800
ATTRIBUTED TO MEISSEN ROYAL PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY MODELS (PROBABLY BY JOHANN JOACHIM KANDLER) ACCORDING TO TECHNIQUE MODELLING AND AGE, A PAIR OF IMPRESSIVE EARLY 19TH CENTURY HARD PASTE PORCELAIN FIGURES OF BOY AND GIRL MODELLED AS YOUNG GARDENER AND HIS COMPANION
The faces shaped as Meissen Kinderkoph, both wearing 18th Century elaborate polychrome enamelled dress and carrying a bouquet of flowers, raised on moulded rustic bases beside naturalistic tree trunk, blue underglaze crossed sword marks with dot above, incised pattern no: 1546.
(44cm x h 46cm)
Condition: generally good, boys arm damaged and restored, few tiny nicks to glaze
N.B. according to Meissen porcelain by Walcha, 1973, he concludes swording mark had been relegated to the youngest and most unskilled apprentices, including Marcolini period, 1774 - 1814, one can safely deduce from this that many kinds of variations were possible within this enormous span of time
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