CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO REVERSE, RED ENAMELLED INVENTORY NUMBER 1600 TO BASE

Name: A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A COOK
Brand: CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO REVERSE, RED ENAMELLED INVENTORY NUMBER 1600 TO BASE
Price: 1200.00 GBP
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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A COOK

CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO REVERSE, RED ENAMELLED INVENTORY NUMBER 1600 TO BASE

Modelled by J.J. Kändler, standing in front of a brick oven, holding a pan and a spoon, wearing a white jacket and apron and pink breeches, on a shaped-oval base
6 in. (15.3 cm.) high

Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Collection Franz E. Burda, Meissen, Augsburg, 1997, p. 143, fig. 66.

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Lot Essay

This figure is one of a number of variations of this model, in which a cook is depicted holding a pan, a dish or a pie. Kändler's Work Report of July 1747 mentions 'a figure in the shape of a cook, modelled in clay for the prince of Dessau. He is depicted in white jacket with a wraparound apron, as he carries a pie in a bowl', see Vanessa Sigalas and Meredith Chilton, All Walks of Life, A Journey with The Alan Shimmerman Collection, Stuttgart, 2022, p. 201 and see also cat. nos. 47 and 48 for two variations on this model.