PORCELAIN GROUP "ANNETTE ET LUBIN".
Meissen.
19th c.
Model M.V. Acier.
Porcelain; enriched in colours and gold.
Probably a scene from the opera "Annette et Lubin" by Justine Favarts and Adolphe Blaises; which was first performed in 1762 at the Paris Op閞a-Comique.
Annette is blackmailed by the bailiff 'le Bailli'. The 'man of the law' wants to make her marry him; since she is expecting an illegitimate child from her cousin Lubin.
Measurement: Height 22cm.
Mark: Swordsmark; B100; 'R' stamped; porcelain former no. 51; painter no. 53.
Art trade; Van Ham.