ITEM DESCRIPTION
My stock ref: #GT/Oct26 in glass cabinet #U9
This is a very nice 19th Century Continental fine porcelain figurine After the original Meissen.
You can google this and see an original sold by Christies in 2024 with this description
Modelled by J.J. Kändler as two children eating porridge above a table fashioned from a barrel, the boy sitting on an overturned basket brimming with flowers, the base decorated with rocaille details and applied leaves and flowers and centred by a small flower basket.
The Meissen Origin & Continental Copies
The original model for this theme was designed circa 1765–1770 by the famous master modeler Johann Joachim Kändler for the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory in Germany.
It traditionally features two children or a young peasant couple eating porridge out of a bowl resting on a rustic, upright wooden barrel serving as a table. Because Meissen designs were immensely popular, many late 19th-century regional European factories especially German firms like Sitzendorf and Dresden reproduced this exact "eating porridge from a barrel" scene during the Rococo Revival era ( 1830 - 1870 )
This is one of the Rococo Revival era as you can see it has NO makers marks on the base or anywhere. Its fine but its slightly heavier porcelain than the earlier original period. This is very well made and hand finished off with fine flowers encrusted on, feels very much like Coalbrookdale or Dresden.
The small basket of flowers at the front near the young girls dress has chips and losses of porcelain. Small bit of the fretted basket is broken out and the edges of the flowers. This is the ONLY area of issues.
The feet, fingers and spoons have NOT been damaged. It has no repairs or restoration.
If you see the base you can see a manufacturing firing crack and the single air hole on the underside of the figure group.
Very nice hand painted before firing and then the added gilt paint work too. It has some wear on the gilding in places.
As I look at it more it could even be English and someone like Ralph Wood, Staffordshire made. It is very fine.
The base is approx. 13cm x 10.5cm and its 13cm tall to the top of the boys head. It weighs approx. 600 grams.
If anyone knows more about it, maker, period etc I am all ears. Cheers, in advance.
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