From Meissen to Paris : The Röbbig Collection | Part III

From Meissen to Paris : The Röbbig Collection | Part III

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A pair of Meissen porcelain bouquetière figures, circa 1745-55

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modelled by J. J. Kändler, each holding a large pierced basket on their lap, the woman wearing a black bonnet and yellow skirt, her companion a green hat and turquoise breeches, their clothes painted with complementing sprays of indianische Blumen, each on small mound bases applied with leaves and flowers


Height of tallest 20.9 cm; 8 ¼ in

The lady: S. K. Andres-Acevedo, Die autonomen figürlichen plastiken, Johann Joachim Kaendlers und seiner werkstatt zwischen 1731 und 1748, Stuttgart, 2023, Vol. 2, p. 278, no. 110.

The figures are recorded by Kändler in his Taxa of overtime work: ‘Weib Bild sizend einen Korb auff den Schooß habend, worein Bluhmen gesezet werden können, 5 Thlr.’, [Figure of a woman seated, holding a basket on her lap into which flowers may be placed — 5 Thalers.]; and ‘Gärtner sizend, einen Blumen-Korb vor sich haltend, darein Bluhmen gesezet werden können, als ein Compagnon zur Gärtnerin, 4 Thlr’, [A gardener sitting, holding a flower basket in front of him into which flowers can be placed, as a companion to the gardener, 4 thalers] quoted by Andres-Acevedo from Johannes Rafael, ‘Zur Taxa Kaendler’, Keramos, no. 203/204, 2009, p. 55. Two pairs of these models, mounted as three-light candelabra, were sold at Sotheby’s, London, A Mansion Overlooking a Royal Park, 28 April 2015, lot 64. Another similar pair were sold from the The Röbbig Collection, Part II, Sotheby's, Paris, 25 June 2026, lot 387.


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