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Figure en porcelaine représentant un homme assis au cacatoès, Meissen, circa 1922-1923, E.A 3/11 Meissen seated figure of a man holding a cockatoo, circa 1922-1923Urstück [Artist's Proof] No. 3 of 11 Modelled by Paul Scheurich seated on a purple cushion and leaning against a palm tree-trunk with a cockatoo perched on his right hand, wearing a puce-lined white tunic with purple ribbons and a swords at the rear and gilt buttons, the sleeves with red tassels, his slippers with yellow tips and gilt buttons, the oval base moulded with leaves and grass heightened in green, 20.8cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised model number G.294., impressed Bossierer's number 123, impressed ad incised 'VON 11 Ur-/ STUCKEN Nr: 3'FootnotesProvenance: Wolfgang Müller von Baczko (1894-1947), Director of the Meissen Manufactory 1936-40 Literature: Rafael 1995a, ill. 20 Exhibited: Meissen, Schauhalle der Staatlichen Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen, Paul Scheurich 1883-1945 Porzellane für die Meissener Manufaktur, 21 September 1995-10 January 1996; Paris, Musée National de Céramique à Sèvres, Chefs d'oeuvres céramiques de collections privée allemandes, 30 June-20 July 1996, no. S4; Meissen, Museum der Meissen Porzellan-Stiftung, Paul Scheurich Porzellangestalter Zeichner Grafiker, 6 March 2020-21 February 2021 The Meissen manufactory purchased the model of this figure on 20 March 1922 for RM 15,000, though it is likely that Scheurich had completed it sometime earlier. A companion figure, 'Orientalin mit Flöte' (see preceding lot), was delayed because Scheurich fell ill from August 1923, and so the figure of the man with cockatoo was sold from Summer 1923 without its companion. By the end of 1931 69 examples had been sold.