Old peasant woman with a basket from the "Cris de Paris" series by Meissen Peasant woman standing on a naturalistic base with applied flowers and leaves, offering grapes from a basket with a handle. Polychrome painting. Designed by Johann Joachim Kaendler. Rest; minimally dam.; crossed swords mark. H. 18 cm. After a drawing from Edme Bouchardon's "Cris de Paris". A further variant of the peasant woman with pears in the catalogue of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Hamburg refers to the free interpretation of the modellers with the original model. Cf. cat. Kunstgewerbemuseum Hamburg, 1982, no. 226; Adams, Meissen Figures, no. 3 and 4; Eberle, Cris de Paris, p. 34, no. 3. A porcelain figure of a woman selling grapes from the series Cris de Paris. Restored. Minor chipped. Meissen. Mid 18th century.