7. A very rare Meissen figure of a drinking peasant, circa 1740 Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, wearing a pale-brown hat, white ruff collar, gilt-lined grey jacket, iron-red breeches with blue bows and black boots, the base applied with leaves, 20.5cm high (minor restoration) Provenance: Anon. sale, Important Continental Porcelain The Property of The Baroness Eugene de Rothschild and Other Owners, Sotheby's London, 27 June 1978, lot 45 Literature: Siemen, Wilhelm (ed.), Von den Ursprüngen des europäischen Porzellans bis zum Art Déco, 2010, p. 106, cat. 69 Exhibited: Selb and Hohenberg a.d. Eger, Porzellanikon - Staatliches Museum für Porzellan, Königstraum und Massenware. 300 Jahr europäisches Porzellan, 24 April to 2 November 2010; Hohenberg an der Eger, Porzellanikon - Staatliches Museum für Porzellan, 2018-2023 Other recorded examples of this rare figure were in the Alfred E. Pearson Collection (sold at Sotheby's London, 23 May 1967, lot 119); a second was in the Ionides Collection (published in G. Bernard Hughes, Dresden "porcelain figures" Country Life Annual, 1950, p. 60, fig. 4); and a third was in the Armand Esders Collection (sold Hotel Drouot, 19-20 July 1941, lot 180 and subsequently at Sotheby's Zürich, 2 December 1981, lot 113).