Étui à aiguilles en forme d'enfant dans ses langes (Wickelkind) en porcelaine de Meissen, monture en metal doré, circa 1750

A gilt-metal-mounted Meissen needle box in the form of an infant in swaddling clothes (Wickelkind), circa 1750

Wearing a bonnet embellished in gilding, the swaddling clothes painted with indianische Blumen and edged in gilding, the flat gilt-metal cover moulded with a floral motif, 6.8cm
Footnotes:
Literature:
W. Siemen (pub.), Vor den Ursprüngen des europäischen Porzellans bis zum Art Déco (2010), cat. no. 119

Exhibited:
Selb and Hohenberg a.d. Eger, Porzellanikon, 'Königstraum und Massenware. 300 Jahr europäisches Porzellan', 24 April to 2 November 2010

A similar example, dated 1745-50, is illustrated by M. Mayer-Heilemann, Das Wickelkind, in Keramos 80 (1978), p. 34, no. 60.

In good condition.