Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A Meissen figure of Count Brühl's Tailor 19th century, after the model by J J Kändler, the eccentric figure modelled astride a billy goat which holds a flat iron his mouth, the tailor brandishing a large pair of scissors above his head, two kids sitting in a half barrel strapped to his back, blue crossed swords mark, some restoration, 23.5cm high.

Heinrich von Brühl was a Polish-Saxon statesman and diplomat with a famed reputation as a dandy and profligate. Frederick II of Prussia is reported as having said of him, "Brühl had more garments, watches, laces, boots, shoes and slippers than any man of the age. Caesar would have counted him among those curled and perfumed heads that he did not fear".