Extremely rare Meissen figurine group "The Quack" Depicted on an irregular oval base covered with flowers and leaves, a doctor or market crier in elegant clothing standing next to a small table with an open book, on which a monkey is tampering with medicines and utensils, while a harlequin brings bags of herbs. Fine polychrome painting. Designed by Johann Joachim Kaendler, 1741, probably inspired by an engraving by Sutton Nicholls, "The Quack-Doctor, Outwitted", London, c. 1710, Wellcome Library, inv. no. 20542i. Unw. rest./minim. dam.; crossed swords mark. H. 20.5 cm. L. 20 cm. Kaendler's taxa reads: "1. A dentist with a large peruque or marquetry shrine, holding his medicines, has a table next to him, with medicines lying on it, and a monkey holding medicine, as well as an arlequin in a merry pose, holding herbs in his hat, 11 Thlr. Cf. Andres-Acevedo, Die autonomen figürlichen Plastiken Johann Joachim Kaendlers und seiner Werkstatt zwischen 1731 und 1748, vol. II, p. 120, no. 307; see Menzhausen/Karpinski, In Porzellan verzaubert, p. 145 (illus.). An extremely rare porcelain group "the quack doctor" representing a dentist with monkey and harlequin. Insignificantly restored. Minor chipped. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. Circa 1741 - 1745.