A MEISSEN GROUP OF APPLE-PICKERS after an original model by J. J. Kändler and F. E. Meyer and formed as a young boy stretching from a ladder across the cleft of a branch, to toss fruit to a young woman and two boys at the foot of the tree, she collecting apples in her apron, one boy with fruit in his hat and the other slicing the fruit (leaves restored, small chips to extremities), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 107, incised 1998, iron-red painted number 18, circa 1880

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细节

A MEISSEN GROUP OF APPLE-PICKERS after an original model by J. J. Kändler and F. E. Meyer and formed as a young boy stretching from a ladder across the cleft of a branch, to toss fruit to a young woman and two boys at the foot of the tree, she collecting apples in her apron, one boy with fruit in his hat and the other slicing the fruit (leaves restored, small chips to extremities), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 107, incised 1998, iron-red painted number 18, circa 1880
11¾in. (30cm.) high

拍品专文

Cf. Siegfried Ducret, op. cit., p. 216, no. 884 for an example of circa 1753. The subject of applepickers or cherrypickers appears frequently in the art of this period, eg. François Boucher's painting, La Cuillette des Cerises