Schindler is considered a figure of fun, as he plays on a "Musette de cour", the bellows of which are made of a goat, an aristocratic variant of the bagpipes from the early 18th century. Together with Joseph Fröhlich, Schindler was already engaged as Court Jester at the court of August the Strong and later played the "merry councilor" for Count Brühl in his private theater. In the same year, he was entrusted with the management of the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory. By far the rarest version is the one with the Hussar Schindler, wearing the guard uniform of a Hussar regiment.Īt the time the group of figures was created, Gottfried Schindler was in the service of Count Heinrich von Brühl (1700-1763), who was already Chief Chamberlain at the court of August the Strong and, after his death in 1733, became the most important advisor to Elector Friedrich August II. There are several variations of the hand kissing group, in which different persons or attributes were added to the sitting lady. Weiln solches aber sehr viel mühe hat ist noch was in künfftigen monat davon zu fertigen übrig blieben" (BA: I A b 9, pp. ein neues Croppgen aufs Waaren lager angefangen wie eine Vornehme Dame auf einem Visiten Stuhle sitzet und hat eine Coffee Dasse in der rechten Hand, die linke aber küsst eine Wohl gebuzte Mannes Persohn, Hinter denen Frauen zimmer stehet ein Mohr mit Einem credenz Teller welcher Serviret. In Kändler's work report of April 1737, a different version of this group is described: "7.
Auction Christie's London, The Property of a Noted European Collector Part II,, Lot No. Collection Baron Maurice de Rothschild, Geneva.
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