Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume III : À travers l’Hôtel Lambert

A Meissen Pagoda figure, circa 1715-1720

Auction Closed

October 13, 06:27 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

A Meissen Pagoda figure, circa 1715-1720

seated cross-legged surrounded by tea paraphernalia, wearing a high purple cap edged in red, his hair and features picked out in brown red, on a fitted carved giltwood stand

height 5 3⁄4 in.; 14,5 cm.

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Personnage en porcelaine de Meissen, vers 1715-1720

height 5 3⁄4 in.; 14,5 cm.

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Christies London, 25 November 1991, lot 346;

Sotheby's London, The Collection of Giovanni and Gabriella Barilla, 14 March 2012, lot 97.

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Christies Londres, 25 Novembre 1991, lot 346;

Sotheby's Londres, The Collection of Giovanni and Gabriella Barilla, 14 Mars 2012, lot 97.

When this figure sold in 1991 it was unrecorded, and it appears no other examples of this model wearing a tall hat are recorded. Other figures of Pagods modelled with teawares and seated on a shaped base include those formerly in the Collection Otto and Magdalene Blohm, Sotheby's London, 5 July 1960, lot 132; and similar figures sold at Sotheby's London, 7 July 1964, lot 150; Sotheby's New York, 12 November 1999, lot 13; and Sotheby's London, 27 November 1979, lot 22.