A figurine "Reader at the distaff"
Lot-No. 729
Probably Meissen, 18th cent. Design prob. Kaendler c. 1760 after the copper engraving "les amusements de la vie privée" by L. Surugue (1747) after the identically named painting by Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin (1746). A Dame with babushka seated on an arm chair beside a rococ table with a distaff and holding a book in her right hand. Partly little rest. Unmarked. H. 16 cm.
A figurine "Reader at the distaff"
A figurine "Reader at the distaff"
Lot-No. 729
Probably Meissen, 18th cent. Design prob. Kaendler c. 1760 after the copper engraving "les amusements de la vie privée" by L. Surugue (1747) after the identically named painting by Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin (1746). A Dame with babushka seated on an arm chair beside a rococ table with a distaff and holding a book in her right hand. Partly little rest. Unmarked. H. 16 cm.