A Meissen porcelain figure as an allegory of sight / the face - image-1
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Lot 1324 Dα

A Meissen porcelain figure as an allegory of sight / the face

Auction 1174 - overview Cologne
04.06.2021, 12:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
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A Meissen porcelain figure as an allegory of sight / the face

Depicting a group with a lady looking through a telescope, a putto with a lantern and an eagle with outstretched wings picked out in finely painted early polychromy. Unglazed base with blue crossed swords mark, model number 1035, pressnummer 37., B in gold. One of the eagle's wings, part of the telescope and one finger broken, with older restorations. H 28.5 cm.
Model by Johann Joachim Kaendler, 1748, produced soon after.

Provenance

Collection of Renate and Tono Dreßen.

Literature

Illustrated in cat. Blütenlese Meißener Porzellan aus der Sammlung Tono Dreßen, Berlin-Munich 2018, illus. 3.
A further example is housed in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.