Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen répresentant une femme polonaise, circa 1745

A Meissen figure of a Polish woman, circa 1745

Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, J.F. Eberlein and J.G. Ehder, holding a fan in her left hand, wearing a bonnet, fur-lined green coat secured by a yellow bow, a dress decorated with flower sprigs and a broad, gilt-edged yellow stripe at the front, a gilt-edged puce underskirt and yellow shoes with purple bows, the base applied with leaves and flowers, 15.5cm high, painter's mark of a purple triangle (very minor chips)
Footnotes:
Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 2 October 1979, lot 155

Literature:
J. Rafael, Zur 'Taxa Kaendler', in Keramos 203/204 (2009), p. 48 (illustrated)

The figure is listed in J.J. Kaendler's work reports in December 1743: 'Ein Polak Weibel in Thon zu poußiren angefangen, zum Waaren Laager' [a Polish woman begun in clay, to the warehouse]. According to their respective work records, the model was apparently subsequently worked on by Eberlein in January 1744 and by Ehder in April (quoted by S-K. Andres-Acevedo, Die autonomen figürlichen Plastiken [...], vol. 2 (2023), p. 157).

Kaendler's Taxa includes: '1. Frauenzimmer mit einer Taillien Andriene mit weiten Fischbein-Rocke, Handshuhe auf den Händen, in der lincken eine Fächer habend, tanzende, vorgestellt ' [1 female figure with an andrienne bodice and wide crinoline dress, gloves on her hands, a fan in her left hand, depicted dancing].

There is a narrow 2mm flake of green enamel lacking to the edge of a fold of her coat at the rear. There is a very small flat chip to the bottom corner of her green coat at her left front. There is a tiny flat chip to the top edge of the fur-lined right sleeve of her coat (above her right elbow). There are some very minor losses to the gilding along the bottom edge of her puce underskirt. There is a flat chip to the toe of her right shoe. There are chips to two of the applied leaves on the base, and a narrow flat chip along the bottom edge of the blue flower.
Otherwise in good condition.