Meissen models from 1740 by Johann Joachim Kaendler and Johann Friedrich Eberlein. Tailor: swords mark on the back of the base, 24 cm high, mould and decoration 1745/50; tailoress: swords mark on the bisque base, 18 cm high, mould and decoration 1745/50. Work report November 1740 (no. 12): ‘The tailor, riding on a goat, is completely finished … as he carries all his tools with him.’
Kaendler first created the large version of his tailor on a goat in 1737 (work report May 1737 no. 12). This model, of which not a single 18th century version is known to date, is 44 cm high and has no base plate (Rückert in Kunst und Antiquitäten 3/1979 p. 24). Three years later, in 1740, Kaendler and Eberlein took up the theme again in the same satirical manner, but in a smaller format.
Our tailor, which we date to around 1745/50, is characterised by the fact that he presents a variety of the attributes and tools of a master tailor like hardly any other: - the iron in the mouth; - the pistol pouches on either side of the goat's skirt, which are filled with bolts of cloth, buttons and a cuff; - the tailor's ell shaped as a sword on the left; - the oversized scissors in the right hand as a sign of victory; - the two kids in the wooden hut on the tailor's back correspond with the young tailor's wife, the partner created by Eberlein.
The tailor on the he-goat is the counterpart of the tailor's wife on the female goat, modelled by Johann Friedrich Eberlein in August 1740. His work report from August 1740 reads: "‘A tailor's wife with a nursing child riding on a goat, together with a young goat suckling.’
Comparative pairs: – Slg. Schneider (Rückert 1966 Nr. 885, 978 T. 216, diesem Exemplar kommt unsere
Ausformung am nächsten) – Slg. Pauls-Eisenbeiss (1972 S. 346 ff.) – Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT – Brattig Ausstellungskatalog 2010 Nr. 51, 52 – Slg. von Klemperer Nr. 607, 608 – Slg. von Pannwitz II Nr. 301, 302 – Slg. Hermine Feist (Kat. Berlin 1937 Nr. 496 T. 35) – Slg. Budge Nr. 785, 786 T. 128 – Partridge 1899 Nr. 910 (Case 10), Nr. 984 (Case 9) – Slg. Nyffeler Nr. 43 ,44 – Slg. Kempski (Kunze-Köllensperger 2008 Nr. 58, 59) – Victoria & Albert Museum
