Statuette en porcelaine de Meissen représentant 'Kammerhusar' Schindler, circa 1740

A Meissen figure of Kammerhusar Schindler, circa 1740

Modelled by J.J.Kaendler, playing goat bagpipes and standing on a rectangular pedestal moulded with leaves at the corners and edged in gilding, with a mastiff seated behind him, wearing a fur-lined yellow hat, puce tunic with gilt frogging, a yellow belt, turquoise breeches and yellow boots 17.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to rear edge of pedestal (minor restoration and chips)
Footnotes:
Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 12th June 2002, lot 146;
The Property of the late Miss A.G. Ferris (acquired in the above sale), sold Sotheby's London, 1 December 2003, lot 249

Another example of this figure is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Irwin Untermyer Collection, acc. no. 64.101.130.

See A. von Wallwitz, Celebrating Kaendler Meissen Porcelain Sculpture (2006), pp. 29ff. for a discussion of Schindler, who was Leibhusar or personal hussar to Heinrich Graf von Brühl, one of around 300 servants employed by the famously profligate Prime Minister of Saxony. Three of his servants, including Kammerhusar Schindler, are depicted in a painting of around 1747 now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, inv. no. Mo 1161.

Both horns and the left ear of the goat bagpipe are restored; the right ear is broken off. The tail is broken off, and there is a small spot of restoration to the tip of the flute of the bagpipes. The tip of the wooden brace of the bagpipes at the rear is replaced (old overpainting flaking).
There is some very minor wear to the gilding on the moulded leaves on the corners of the pedestal, and a tiny flat chip to the bottom edge of the base at the rear.
Otherwise in good condition.