Rare Large Model In Polychrome Porcelain From The Meissen Manufacture Representing La Belle Chocolatière Model By Paul Helming.

Rare large polychrome model from the Meissen porcelain factory located in the province of Saxony in Germany representing the beautiful
chocolatier based on a painting preserved and exhibited at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister museum in Dresden, Germany (old painting gallery
masters.)
- Pastel on parchment executed in 1743 by the Genevan painter Jean-Etienne Liotard.
- Polychrome porcelain representing the beautiful chocolatier, it is a young girl carrying a tray on which are placed a chocolate cup and its money
cup containing a chocolate drink and a glass of water: it is a servant.
- The cup and saucer and the water glass are removable from the tray.
- The tray, the cup and the saucer as well as the glass of water are signed on the underside in blue under cover of the stamp of the Meissen factory
of two crossed swords.
- The model was created by Paul Helming (Niedermeisa 1859-Meissen 1939) for the Meissen factory in 1901, it exists in two sizes 38.5 cm and
18.5 cm are rarely found on the art market. The 38.5 cm model, the 18.5 cm model, is more common but also difficult to find.
- Paul Helming retired in 1925.
- The chocolate maker is signed under the base with the stamp of the Meissen factory in blue under cover of the two crossed swords, it
also includes the letter V, the number 8 and the letter C for the mold reference of the part hollowed out in the dough as well as the number 121 of the
hollow model and the number 89 in ocher red for the painter.
- Jugendstil (Art-Nouveau) period, 1st quarter of the 20th century around 1901-1925.
- The beautiful large model Meissen porcelain chocolate maker is on display at the Chocolate Museum in Paris.
- In 1862, the American chocolate company Walter-Baker and Company (Boston United States) obtained the reproduction rights to the pastel image