Bidspirit auction | Christ Child in a pin

Christ Child in a pin cushion, Meis - Christ Child in a pin cushion, Meissen, Knaufschwerter mark 1850–1924, first-grade, designed by Johann Joachim Kaendler around 1741, model no. V 56, large swaddled child, neatly swaddled, tied with ribbons and a pin, polychromatic and gilded, H. 33 cm, Lit.: Bergmann, Meissen Figures A1 - Z99, p. 116, a New Year’s gift known in Saxony as “Bornkind,” modeled after the Santo Bambino of the Church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome