844 - Meissen Königliche Porzellanmanufaktur

Meissen Königliche Porzellanmanufaktur Johann Joachim Kaendler A rare Meissen porcelain figure of a Japanese woman carrying a child on her back Indistinct blue crossed swords mark on the back of the base. Both heads reattached, retouching to the sleeve, restored chip to the brim of the hat. Height 12.4 cm. 1744, the model by Johann Joachim Kaendler, produced and decorated soon after modelling. In Kaendler’s workshop reports for August 1744, it states: “A similar little Indian woman with a child, cut and given for moulding.” Provenance Christie’s New York, 17–18 November 1999, lot 451. South German private collection. Literature The model is illustrated in Pietsch, Die Arbeitsberichte des Meissener Porzellanmodelleurs Johann Joachim Kaendler 1706–1775, Leipzig 2002, p. 104. See also Andres-Acevedo, Die autonomen figürlichen Plastiken Johann Joachim Kaendlers und seiner Werkstatt zwischen 1731 und 1748, vol. 2, Stuttgart 2023, work reports 497 and taxa 201. Another example is in the collection of the British Museum, London, mus. no. 1945,1201.6.