A rare Kaendler-figure 'The Careful Housewife'
Lot-No. 830
Meissen, around 1755/60. The model by J. J. Kaendler, around 1755, after an engraving by Jacques-Philippe Le Bas (published 1754), after the painting 'L'Oeconome' by Chardin (1747). Beside a rococo table a young woman seated on a scrollwork chair makes some notes in her housekeeping book. Crossed swords mark. Min. prof. rest. H. 16,3 cm. Comp.: Cat. The Pauls Collection, vol. I Meissen, Frankfurt 1967, p. 460 and Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, Celebrating Kaendler 1706-1775, 2006, p. 157. Prov.: Collection of the Alfred Nobel family, Stockholm, Sweden.
A rare Kaendler-figure 'The Careful Housewife'
A rare Kaendler-figure 'The Careful Housewife'
Lot-No. 830
Meissen, around 1755/60. The model by J. J. Kaendler, around 1755, after an engraving by Jacques-Philippe Le Bas (published 1754), after the painting 'L'Oeconome' by Chardin (1747). Beside a rococo table a young woman seated on a scrollwork chair makes some notes in her housekeeping book. Crossed swords mark. Min. prof. rest. H. 16,3 cm. Comp.: Cat. The Pauls Collection, vol. I Meissen, Frankfurt 1967, p. 460 and Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, Celebrating Kaendler 1706-1775, 2006, p. 157. Prov.: Collection of the Alfred Nobel family, Stockholm, Sweden.