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Deux figures en porcelaine formant pendants représentant une danseuse espagnole et un joueur de luth, Meissen, circa 1933-1937 A pair of Meissen figures of the Spanish dancer and the Spaniard with Lute (Spanische Tänzerin und Spanier mit Laute), circa 1933-1937Modelled by Paul Scheurich holding a fan in her left hand and castanets in her right, wearing a tilt hat, a bustier decorated with blue bobbles and a wide skirt decorated with a border of pink flowers and dots, on a shaped base, incised 'Scheurich 31' on the back of the base; the guitarist eated on a rectangular bombe pedestal, wearing a turquoise-lined yellow jacket with a grey hat with turquoise and blue baubles at the rear, white trousers with gilt details and a puce cummerbund, the lobed base moulded with grassy edges heightened in green, 27.7cm high and 19.3cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue (with guitarist with dot between the tips of the swords), the dancer with incised model number A 1248 and impressed former numeral 14, the guitarist with impressed model number A 1191. and Bossierer's number 50 (the dancer with restored chip to back of base, tip of foot restored; the guitarist with neck of guitar restored) (2)FootnotesLiterature: Rafael 1995a, ill. 49.2 (the guitarist) Exhibited: Meissen, Schauhalle der Staatlichen Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen, Paul Scheurich 1883-1945 Porzellane für die Meissener Manufaktur, 21 September 1995-10 January 1996 (the guitarist); Meissen, Museum der Meissen Porzellan-Stiftung, Paul Scheurich Porzellangestalter Zeichner Grafiker, 6 March 2020-21 February 2021 The figure of the dancer was modelled in 1931, purchased by the manufactory the same year for RM 1,779.70 and delivered by July. The companion figure was probably made at the behest of the manufactory and was delivered in April 1932 at a purchase price of RM 1,500; the models were re-worked by Scheurich in Meissen in June 1932. Due to the adverse economic conditions, the manufactory was operating at reduced capacity so that the first porcelain examples were finished at the beginning of 1933. The forced departure of Max Adolf Pfeiffer from the manufactory in 1933 soured its relationship with Scheurich and he did not respond to repeated requests to design the colouring for the two figures; he only did so following the appointment of Wolfgang Müller von Baczko as Director in 1937.