A Meissen figure of a vegetable seller, circa 1746-50

modelled by J. F. Eberlein, as a rustic girl wearing a hat, holding vegetables in her apron, on a mound base applied with flowers and leaves, traces of crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to rear of base,

Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian, Inventory, 1901, p.120, Decorative China in Lady Lothian's Dressing Room & Ante Room; '2 Dresden china figures, male & female fruit sellers. (1 faulty). 7" ', part.

Her right hand and half of her forearm lacking. Some minor chipping to applied leaves.
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For the model see Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen portrait figures, London, 1987, p. 108, pl. XXVIII. The model and the male companion figure were imitated at Höchst, a pair from the Pflueger collection are illustrated by Hugh Morley-Fletcher, Catalogue, London, 1993, Vol. I, p. 80.