porcelain, enamel paint, gilding,
minor losses (2 rake teeth missing, flower loss, small crack at trunk bough);
H 14.3 cm, base 13.5 x 9.5 cm (oval); signed with blue sceptre in underglaze on glazed blob, imprint 2090.
Germany, Berlin KPM ?, 2nd half of the 19th century?
On an oval rocaille base, a half-naked, barefoot girl with pink drapery around her hips, her hair pinned up in a bun. Leaning against the trunk and slightly bent over, with a watering can in her right hand. By the trunk a rake, at the side two pots: with primulas and forget-me-nots.
The composition refers to the 18th-century Meissen porcelain sculpture Earth by J. J. Kaendler from the Four Elements series, repeated in Meissen in the 19th century; authorship of the Berlin manufactory unconfirmed (unusual signature, no comparative materials).
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