A Meissen porcelain figure of a cavalier holding a snuff box, circa 1755
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2,000 - 3,000 EUR
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200 EUR
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Description
modelled standing, holding an open snuff box in his right hand, with his tricorn hat tucked under his left arm, on a rocaille scroll-moulded base heightened in gilding, applied with flowers, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to rear of base
Height 7 ⅞ in; 20,2 cm
An example of this figure, formerly in the Landesgewerbemuseum, Stuttgart, is illustrated in Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Munich, 1966, pl. 247, cat. no. 1009, and tentatively attributed to J.J. Kändler, p. 185, where it is associated with the Craftsmen series, whose figures were modelled on similar high mound bases with rocaille scrolls.
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