AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN BOUQUETIERE FIGURE

CIRCA 1740-50, THE MODEL BY J.J. KANDLER, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY GERMAN, THE BASKET MOUNT MID-18TH CENTURY, THE BASE SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN BOUQUETIERE FIGURE
CIRCA 1740-50, THE MODEL BY J.J. KANDLER, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY GERMAN, THE BASKET MOUNT MID-18TH CENTURY, THE BASE SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Modeled as a woman standing, her skirts in one hand, the other supporting a flower-filled striped basket on her back
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high

Provenance

The collection of Generaldirektor Ole Olsen; sold Winkel & Magnussen, Copenhagen, 4-8 May 1953.
Nachemson Antiques, Inc., New York, 31 October 1954.
Property from the Collection of Frederick J. and Antoinette H. Van Slyke; Sotheby's, New York, 26 September 1989, lot 154.

Literature

H. Schmitz, Generaldirektor Ole Olsens Kunstsamlinger, vol. II, pp. 29 (Danish) and 27 (English), and pl. XLII, no. 1368.

Exhibited

Baltimore, Maryland, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Anonymous Loan, 24 June 1965 - 2 October 1969.

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Lot Essay

Kander's Taxa notes records this model might originally been intended to hold mustard on her back: Bauer Mädel mit Korbe auf dem Rücken, worein Senff oder andere Dinge gethan werden können". For a discussion, an illustration of the model formerly in the Dr. Fritz Mannheimer collection in Amsterdam, as well as a list of other known examples, see A.L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, p. 438, no. 320.

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