Gardener's Child with Grapes
Johann Joachim Kaendler (Fischbach/Sachsen 1706 - Meissen 1775)
Lot-No. 847
Meissen, designed 1750/60, made 20th cent. Porcelain, colourfully painted. Model no. '16'. Crossed swords mark. Min. chipped. H. 12 cm. - German porcelain modeller and sculptor, taught by the sculptor Thomae in Dresden, whose baroque influence is especially visible in his animal figures, in 1731 appointed court sculptor by August the Strong, at the same time beginning his work for porcelain manufacture Meissen, which he directs for many years, his works are among the highlights of early European porcelain.
Johann Joachim Kaendler: Gardener's Child with Grapes
Johann Joachim Kaendler (Fischbach/Sachsen 1706 - Meissen 1775)
Gardener's Child with Grapes
Lot-No. 847
Meissen, designed 1750/60, made 20th cent. Porcelain, colourfully painted. Model no. '16'. Crossed swords mark. Min. chipped. H. 12 cm. - German porcelain modeller and sculptor, taught by the sculptor Thomae in Dresden, whose baroque influence is especially visible in his animal figures, in 1731 appointed court sculptor by August the Strong, at the same time beginning his work for porcelain manufacture Meissen, which he directs for many years, his works are among the highlights of early European porcelain.
