Groupe en porcelaine de Meissen répresentant une... Lot 48

Groupe en porcelaine de Meissen répresentant une femme avec deux enfants chinois, circa 1745 A Meissen chinoiserie group of a woman with two children, circa 1745 Modelled by P. Reinicke, the seated mother wearing a long puce-lined jacket decorated with flower sprigs and with a long yellow belt over a turquoise skirt and yellow shies, one child dressed in puce and holding a yellow hat seated on her lap, the second child to her right wearing a yellow tunic with puce sash, the base applied with leaves and flowers, 13.9cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, (minor chips and restoration) Footnotes: Provenance: The Estate of the late Andreina Torre, sold Christie's Geneva, 16 November 1992, lot 117 Based on the engraving by J.J. Balechou, after Boucher's 'Les Délices de l'Enfance; see E. Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century, vol. I (1972), p. 112, for another example in the Pauls Collection. Another example is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, C.6-1978. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com