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264 - A Pair of Meissen Porcelain Figures of a Hungarian Lady and Gentleman, circa 1750, modelled by Johann Joachim Kändler and Peter Reinicke, she wearing a bonnet, fur-lined cape, pink bodice and flower-sprigged skirts, he with fur-lined cape, blue jacket and yellow boots holding his fur-trimmed hat, on flower-sprigged mound bases, crossed swords marks in underglaze blue 22cm high This pair of figures is derived from Jacques Le Hay's Receuil des Cent Estampe Representant les Differents Nations du Lavent commissed by Charles de Ferriol, the French Ambassador to the Turkish Government in Constantinople. Published in Paris in 1714 with 102 plates, a reduced edition of 65 plates being published in Nurenburg in 1719. See Rückert (Rainer) Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, pg.180 where it is discussed that the figure of the Hungarian gentleman was derived from plate 76 of Le Hay and that the original model was made around 1750
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A Pair of Meissen Porcelain Figures of a Hungarian Lady and Gentleman, circa 1750, modelled by Johann Joachim Kändler and Peter Reinicke, she wearing a bonnet, fur-lined cape, pink bodice and flower-sprigged skirts, he with fur-lined cape, blue jacket and yellow boots holding his fur-trimmed hat, on flower-sprigged mound bases, crossed swords marks in underglaze blue 22cm high This pair of figures is derived from Jacques Le Hay's Receuil des Cent Estampe Representant les Differents Nations du Lavent commissed by Charles de Ferriol, the French Ambassador to the Turkish Government in Constantinople. Published in Paris in 1714 with 102 plates, a reduced edition of 65 plates being published in Nurenburg in 1719. See Rückert (Rainer) Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, pg.180 where it is discussed that the figure of the Hungarian gentleman was derived from plate 76 of Le Hay and that the original model was made around 1750
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