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Auction archive: Lot number 363

A Meissen ormolu-mounted group of cherry-pickers

Auction 24.02.1997
24 Feb 1997
Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$3,251 - US$4,877
Price realised:
£2,875
ca. US$4,674
Auction archive: Lot number 363

A Meissen ormolu-mounted group of cherry-pickers

Auction 24.02.1997
24 Feb 1997
Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$3,251 - US$4,877
Price realised:
£2,875
ca. US$4,674
Beschreibung:

A Meissen ormolu-mounted group of cherry-pickers Circa 1755, the ormolu mount 19th century Modelled by J.J. Kändler , as a gallant, a lady and a boy about a cherry tree gathering cherries from a boy balanced in the tree picking the fruit, in coloured and flowered clothes, the gallant seated with a tricorn hat under his right arm and holding a cherry in his left hand before a wicker-basket of fruit, she standing holding out her fruit- filled apron, the boy seated behind eating cherries from his hat, on a scroll-moulded mound base applied with flowers and foliage and enriched in gilding (the base broken in half and restuck, the seated boy with one leg restuck, handle of wicker-basket and extremities and leaves of tree lacking, some chipping to extremities) 11½in. (29.3cm.) high

Auction archive: Lot number 363
Auction:
Datum:
24 Feb 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

A Meissen ormolu-mounted group of cherry-pickers Circa 1755, the ormolu mount 19th century Modelled by J.J. Kändler , as a gallant, a lady and a boy about a cherry tree gathering cherries from a boy balanced in the tree picking the fruit, in coloured and flowered clothes, the gallant seated with a tricorn hat under his right arm and holding a cherry in his left hand before a wicker-basket of fruit, she standing holding out her fruit- filled apron, the boy seated behind eating cherries from his hat, on a scroll-moulded mound base applied with flowers and foliage and enriched in gilding (the base broken in half and restuck, the seated boy with one leg restuck, handle of wicker-basket and extremities and leaves of tree lacking, some chipping to extremities) 11½in. (29.3cm.) high

Auction archive: Lot number 363
Auction:
Datum:
24 Feb 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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