gorgeously dressed in bonnet, jewellery, and crinoline dress with yellow skirt, wide polychromed border with rose stems, decoration and "indianische" flowering tendrils on a black ground with gilt border, manteaux with white lining, white petticoat with blue border, dark red shoes with yellow rosettes and gilt dots, holding a coffee cup with saucer in the right hand, a kneeling cavalier kissing her left hand, in her lap a pug with blue collar and gilt bells, in the background a Moor with a serving plate, lidded goblet, porcelain, polychromed and gilt, ovoid base encrusted with polychrome blossoms, height: 17 cm, length: 22 cm, Meissen, underglaze blue crossed swords ca. 1970, model no. 73052, former no. 107, red painter no. 17, model by Johann Joachim Kändler 1737, exceptionally elaborate painted design, the pug indicates that the lady is a member of the Order of the Pug (Ru)

Lit.: I. Menzhausen, J. Karpinski, In Porzellan verzaubert, Die Figuren Johann Joachim Kändlers in Meissen aus der Sammlung Pauls-Eisenbeiss Basel, 1993, p 99, ill., Kändler was inspired by a copper engraving by William Hogarth from the series “A Harlots progress” of 1732 after six lost paintings: A harlot, by now living in luxuriously furnished premises, sitting on a chair next to a coffee table on its side, next to her a Moor with teacup.