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After the model by J.J. Kändler, with a gentleman seated on a stool, his face showing his pain, wearing a loose white shirt and black breeches, his kneeling wife tending to his painful bare foot, wearing a bonnet and a flowered yellow dress, a basket of wine bottles nearby, on an oval mound base applied with flowers and foliage
558 in. (14.3 cm.) high
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An example of this group is illustrated by Rainer Ruckert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich, 1966, p.169 and p.215, no. 880. The original group was modelled by J.J. Kändler, possibly with the assistance of P. Reinicke, in 1745.

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