#5

Large Seated Kewpie with Mandolin in Green Chair
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$1,900
sold
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5 1/4"h. (13 cm.) All-bisque Kewpie with right glancing eyes is seated upon a bisque upholstered green chair, clasping a two-shaded brown mandolin in its arms. The underside of the chair is pencil inscribed "May, 1914". A rare large size, the model appeared as model 4871A in the premier line of German Kewpies, commissioned exclusively for Borgfeldt. Germany, circa 1912.