This model dates from 1744 when it was mentioned in Kaendler's work report for March 1744, and in his undated Taxa circa 1740-44. Another example is in The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge (museum no. 140134) and another is illustrated by Vanessa Sigalas and Meredith Chilton, All Walks of Life, A Journey with the Alan Shimmerman Collection, Meissen Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century, Stuttgart, 2022, p. 324
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Overall in good decorative order with some slight surface scratching, wear to enamels and occasional small chip to extremities. Her right forearm and hand broken and restuck and with spray extending to the bottom of her sleeve. Restoration to the top section of her black bodice. Restoration to corners of apron and to one corner of her brown skirt. Two small firing flaws to the folds of the apron. Some chipping, restoration and losses to applied leaves and flowers at the base.
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CIRCA 1745A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A PEASANT WOMAN WITH A HENEstimate: GBP 1,000 - 1,500
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