Lot 364

Condition as per report from Christie's 2015 below, there are no further condition issues to mention.
The back section of the base where the servant is standing is cracked through with the crack running from the front of the base, between her skirts and his feet to the back of the base. This section, including the servant has probably been broken off and restuck with some small areas of filling and overpainting at the back of the base on the edge. Servant's head cleanly broken through neck and restuck. Feathers in his turban broken off and lacking and turban retouched in this area. Small restored chip to rim of tazza held by servant. Minute restored chips to rim of teabowl and saucer. Tip of servant's right boot restored or retouched. Back of chair probably broken off at lower part where it joins the seat and restuck with some overpainting to the chair, a small amount of regilding and associated retouching in yellow to the folds of her skirt nearby at back. Her right arm broken through and restored at right elbow and fingers and thumb restored. Her left thumb and index finger restored replacements. Double ribbon in her hair with a chip to both ends. Tiny chips, some probably retouched to bows at elbows. Tiny chips to leaves of posy at her breast. Small patch of wear to enamels on her hair. Lower corner of her overdress with restored and retouched chip to blue edge section. The tablecloth has two corners restored where they hang over the edge of the table. Handle of coffee-pot restored and possibly a replacement. Silvering on snuff-box badly worn. Typical minor wear to gilding overall and typical small chips to tips of leaves and petals of flowers on base.


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Private collection, Avenue Montaigne, Paris, c.1890-1930
Christies, London, "Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes", 1-2 December 2015, lot 44
The Robert Compton Jones Collection, Sydney

This group is recorded in Kändler's Taxa of April-June 1737 and exists with a number of variations to the figural composition. The group was inspired by an engraving by Laurent Cars after Boucher depicting a scene from Molière's comedy ‘Le Sicilien ou l'Amour peintre'. A similar group with a table and chocolate-service is illustrated by Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. I, 1972, pp. 194-195 and another is illustrated by Stefan Bursche, Meissen, Steinzeug und Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, Berlin, 1980, p. 297, cat no. 306. A variant of this model with a kneeling cavalier, from the same collection as the present lot, was sold at Christie's on 2 June 2015, lot 28 and another group with the table on 21 November 2005, lot 91.