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Girl w/Fruit in her Hat Figurine

This is a figurine of girl / young lady coming back from picking fruit in her garden made by Meissen in about 1760. She is wearing a nice dress and has a stick over her right shoulder holding up a nice hat in the back that she has filled with her picked fruit. She is holding a single fruit in her left hand. Typical base for this period with gilded scrolls. Lots of nice detail as one would expect from a Meissen figurine. The figurine is in OK condition for the age with some restorations and damages. The fingers on her right hand are chipped, both ends of the stick are missing, her left arm has been worked on, I do believe her head was off at some point and there is some over paint on her bodice though I don't see that it was ever damaged - might just been done to hide the other flaws. One leaf on the base is chipped as well. Sounds worse than it is and she displays nicely and is certainly a nice and early example. The bottom of the base is flat and filled with only the air hole in it. The back of the base is marked with the under glaze blue crossed swords as well as an incised Z or something like that as shown! The figure is 4.75 inches tall, 2.25 inches wide and 2 inches deep. Please email me for more information or other pictures.

Price is $349
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