Dame am Spinett mit Kavalier Lot n° 2748

Irregular base covered with plastic flowers and leaves. Playing noble lady sitting at a piano, dressed in a wide crinoline skirt of purple color patterned with large Indian flowers, a black ruffled bodice and a yellow coat trimmed with blue. Beside her the cavalier elegantly dressed in brown frock coat with finely drawn diamond pattern, embracing and kissing his beloved. Polychrome painting. Gold staffage. Designed by Johann Joachim Kaendler, 1742, rest; sword mark. Meissen. Around 1745. h. 16,5 cm. In the list of Kaendler's after-work pieces from January 1742, the group is named as follows: "Groupgen, wie eine Dame auf einem Stuhle sizet, ein Clavir vor sich stehen hat und darauff spielielet, neben ihr stehet ein Cavalier." With the so-called crinoline groups, Johann Joachim Kaendler begins a series of cabinet pieces in which he scenically arranges courtly noble ladies in wide hoop skirts with charming cavaliers into fully sculptural love groups. In the 18th century, when love marriages were the exception, such depictions became a symbol for allegories of longing that were only represented in the private sphere. Cf. Rückert, fig. 866; Menzhausen/Karpinski, p. 111; Meister, cat. Slg. Pauls, vol. I, pp. 308f.; cat. Early Meissen, Hetjens Museum, no. 40. A porcelain figure group of a lady playing the spinet in company of a cavalier from the series of crinoline groups. Restored. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. Around 1745.