Meissen Couple Musicians on Settee Pug Dog Composer Hasse W 56 Kaendler

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Meissen Couple Musicians on Settee Pug Dog Composer Hasse W 56 Kaendler

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Meissen Gorgeous Group of Gigurines: Gallant couple on settee making music. The Details Are Stunningly Sculptured = Finest Modelling Manufactory: Meissen Dating: made circa 1870 Hallmarked: Meissen Mark with Pommels on Hilts (19th century) First Quality model number W 56 / painter's number 6 Material: multicolored porcelain, partially golden painted, glossy finish Technique: handmade porcelain Style: Rococo Design: -- Johann Joachim Kaendler (1706 - 1775) The sculptor was since year 1731 modeller of Meissen manufactory - he is one of the best modellers Meissen manufactory ever had. - Kaendler designed this GALLANT COUPLE ON SETTEE (MODEL W 56) in period 1737 - 40. First Quality Specifications: --A noble couple clad in elegant Rococo garments has taken place on a sofa / settee in order to make music: The lady plays a lute whereas the nobleman is doing music with a transverse flute. A pug dog lying on sofa is watching the noble couple. - Please look at the abundantly sculptured details (for example at the lady's elegant dress with underskirt and mantle as well as at man's garments - mantle, vest, pants and saber/sabre). The painting is of excellent quality, too. The couple depicted here is the composer, court chapel master, harpsichordist and flutist Johann Adolf Hasse (born in Hamburg 1699 - died 1783 in Venedig) and his wife Faustina Hasse-Bordoni, a songstress. Bibliography: I. Menzhausen, J. Karpinski, In Porzellan verzaubert (= Enchanted Porcelain), collection Pauls-Eisenbeiss, Basel 1993, picture 116. Catalogue of Exhibition "Wunder-Harfe" (450 Years of Saxon Governmental Music Band Dresden), 1998, page 36 and 37, picture 57 and 59. The pug dog is a hint that the couple was member of the so-said 'Order of the Pug': This one (German: Mops-Orden) was a para-Masonic society founded by Roman Catholics. It is believed that it was founded in 1740 by Klemens August of Bavaria to bypass the papal bull ‘In eminenti apostolatus’ of 1738. The constitution of the Order of the Pug allowed women to become members, as long as they were Catholic. The Pug was chosen as a symbol of loyalty, trustworthiness and steadiness. [WIKIPEDIA] Measures: height: 15.0 cm (= 5.90 inches) width: 23.0 cm (= 9.055 inches) depth: 14.0 cm (= 5.51 inches) Bibliography: -- Thomas Bergmann (GERMANY / ERLANGEN 2014), Meissen Figures, Model Numbers A 1 - Z 99, page 25, catalogue number 8 Condition: Excellent / there aren't any damages existing.

Creator:
Johann Joachim Kaendler (Sculptor)
Dimensions:
Height: 5.9 in (14.99 cm)Width: 9.055 in (23 cm)Depth: 5.51 in (14 cm)
Style:
Rococo (In the Style Of)
Materials and Techniques:
Porcelain,Painted
Place of Origin:
Germany
Period:
1870-1879
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1870
Condition:
Seller Location:
Vienna, AT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1014412064393