A Ludwigsburg miniature satirical group

CIRCA 1765, BLUE INTERLACED C MARK

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A Ludwigsburg miniature satirical group
Circa 1765, blue interlaced C mark
With a courtier with an excessively large hairbow being helped through an archway by his servant, an amused peasant onlooker peering over a wall and a peacock perched on a wall behind, in coloured and gilt clothes, on a rectangular base mottled in green and brown (restoration to courtier's left arm and hand, edge of tail of peacock, part of hairbow and wall below peacock repaired, tip of courtier's sword lacking)
4in. (10cm.) high

Provenance

Sammlung Emma Budge, Hamburg, (old collection label no. 517), sale Paul Graupe, Berlin 27-29 September 1937, lot 956.

Lot Essay

Cf. the examples sold by Sotheby's on 30 May 1949, lot 112, Eckstein Collection and 21 May 1968, lot 62; another example in the Untermyer Collection illustrated by Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and Other Continental Porcelain, pl. 127, fig. 192.

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