South African and International Art, Decorative Arts and Jewellery
Online-Only Auction, 1 - 8 April 2019
Estate late Sol Munitz and Estate late Dr JR and Mary Strong Decorative Arts
Lot Estimate
ZAR 3 800 - 5 500
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 4 456
About this Item
Meissen, Germany
A Meissen figural group of 'The Feeling', after the model by Johann Carl Schönheit, 19th century
the seated female figure in conversation with a small bird within a gilded cage, to a shaped pink and gilt base with egg-and-dart border, damage to her veil, overpainting to the gilding at the base to the front, underglaze blue cross swords, impressed numerals 43, E4, painted initials 45, 14,5cm high; a Meissen figure of a young boy emblematic of the season of Summer, 19th century, dressed in eighteenth century attire, carrying garlands of grapes, his hat adorned with grapes and vines, damage to his coat, chips throughout, underglaze blue cross swords, painted numeral 3.,13,7cm high; and a Berlin salt, late 19th century, modelled as a figure of a putti standing by a well holding a jug, underglaze blue sceptre mark, 10,5cm high
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