Très rare groupe 'crinoline' en porcelaine de Meissen représentant un chevalier et une dame, porcelaine circa 1745, décor postérieur

A very rare Meissen crinoline group of a cavalier and lady, the porcelain circa 1745, later decorated

Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, the lady holding her companion's hand, with a fan hung from her right wrist, wearing a green cap with gilt flowers, a dress decorated with indianische Blumen and an arched puce border with panels of gilt foliate scrollwork and a gilt-edged white underskirt, her companion holding a gilt snuff box and his tricorn hat under his left arm, wearing a purple-patterned puce jacket with yellow cuffs and gilt buttons and a blue sash, a gold-ground waistcoat decorated with flowers and white breeches, the base applied with leaves and flowers 22cm high (some minor restoration)
Footnotes:
Literature:
J. Rafael, Zur 'Taxa Kaendler', in Keramos 203/204 (2009), p. 59 (illustrated)

Mentioned in Kaendler's work reports in June 1744: 'Einen Neues Groupgen gehöriger maßen zerschnitten und zum abformen Zu bereitet, Welches Vorstellet Wie ein Ordens Ritter mit dem Stern auf der Brust, eine wohl geputzte Dame bey der Hand führet' [a new group cut appropriately to size and prepared for forming, which depicts how a knight of the order with a star on the breast leads a finely finished lady by the hand]; and in the Taxa of overtime work: '1. Grouppgen, einen Cavbalier so auf der Brust einen Stern dem Pohlnischen Orden anhangen hat, auch eine Tabattiere hält, bey der Hand aber eine geputzte Dame führet' [A group of a cavalier with the Polish order and a star hanging on his breast, also holding a snuff box, leading a finely finished lady by the hand].

A similar group was in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Irwin Untermyer Collection, acc. no. 64.101.55; another is in the Pauls Collection (I. Menzhausen, In Porzellan verzaubert (1993), pp. 102f).

Lady:
There is restoration along the top of her cap, with some associated overpainting to the green on the top, and some associated spray residue on her forehead.
The little finger and thumb of her left hand are restored (there is spray residue to the hand and lower forearm visible under UV light).
There is some restoration to the fan hanging from her right wrist, and a small spot of restoration/retouching to her right hand above the thumb.
There is a small spot of retouching to a green leaf on her dress (to the lower right seen from the front); there is a very faint haircrack in the glaze of the front of her dress (to her left side - running from the same flower spray down to the edge of the dress - probably a firing fault).
There is a small (1cm) area of restoration (probably a flat chip) to the unpainted fold of her dress below her right elbow.

Genteman:
There is a small are of restoration to each side of the black bow of his wig at the rear.
The little finger on his left hand is restored. The thumb and little finger of his right hand are restored (in both cases the spray covers a slightly larger area).
There is some restoration to the tip of his nose.

There is some typical restoration/retouching to some of the applied leaves on the base. Otherwise generally in good condition.
Please note that there are two firing cracks to the back and side (her right side) of her dress (original condition).