Description:

Meissen, La Belle Chocolatière, figurine. Museum quality
Large Meissen porcelain figure made after Jean-Étienne Liotard’s celebrated subject “La Belle Chocolatière” (1744). The figure depicts a woman in 18th-century dress holding a serving tray and cup, richly decorated with polychrome floral painting, finely rendered facial features, and carefully applied details. Executed after model no. 1471 and bearing the Marcolini mark, dated to approximately the 1790s.

Origin: Germany, Meissen.
Material: Porcelain.
Dimensions: H. 43 cm, W. 18 cm.
Period: Approx. 1790s.
Condition: small, discreet crack to the lower part of the skirt, from the production, along with light age- and handling-related wear.

Bio:
Meissen was Europe’s first manufacturer of hard-paste porcelain, founded in 1710, and achieved international renown during the 18th century for figurative porcelain of exceptional artistic and technical standard. The Marcolini period is associated with refined modelling, high firing quality, and superb hand-painted decoration. “La Belle Chocolatière”, inspired by Liotard’s watercolour, became an icon of Enlightenment taste and everyday elegance and is regarded as one of Meissen’s most prestigious and collectible figure models.