A rare Meissen porcelain figure of a dancing Tyrolean lady
A rare Meissen porcelain figure of a dancing Tyrolean lady
Figure of a young lady captured in a lively dance step on a rocaille base encrusted with flowers and foliage. Her apron finely decorated with "indianische blumen", the billowing skirt in purple, the jacket blue with a yellow hem. Blue crossed swords mark to the back of the base, unglazed underside, pressnummer 10. The hat, part of the hem of the jacket and one leaf restored, a minor retouch to one of the ribbons. H 18.5 cm.
Around or shortly after 1740, the model by Johann Joachim Kaendler.
This figure is listed in Kaendler's "taxa" as "I. of the same [Tyrolean girl] depicted dancing, holding her apron with both hands 2 talers 12 groschen".
Literature
Cf. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710 - 1810, Munich 1966, no. 1008.
For Kaendler's taxa see Menzhausen/Karpinski, In Porzellan verzaubert. Die Figuren Johann Joachim Kaendlers in Meißen aus der Sammlung Pauls-Eisenbeiss Basel, Basel 1993, p. 195.
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A rare Meissen porcelain figure of a dancing Tyrolean lady
Figure of a young lady captured in a lively dance step on a rocaille base encrusted with flowers and foliage. Her apron finely decorated with "indianische blumen", the billowing skirt in purple, the jacket blue with a yellow hem. Blue crossed swords mark to the back of the base, unglazed underside, pressnummer 10. The hat, part of the hem of the jacket and one leaf restored, a minor retouch to one of the ribbons. H 18.5 cm.
Around or shortly after 1740, the model by Johann Joachim Kaendler.
This figure is listed in Kaendler's "taxa" as "I. of the same [Tyrolean girl] depicted dancing, holding her apron with both hands 2 talers 12 groschen".
Literature
Cf. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710 - 1810, Munich 1966, no. 1008.
For Kaendler's taxa see Menzhausen/Karpinski, In Porzellan verzaubert. Die Figuren Johann Joachim Kaendlers in Meißen aus der Sammlung Pauls-Eisenbeiss Basel, Basel 1993, p. 195.