A LUDWIGSBURG GROUP OF A FORTUNE-TELLER modelled by Johann Valentin Sonnenschein, she in a purple dress with black and white headscarf reading her client's hand, he in a plumed yellow hat, patterned waistcoat, blue cloak, yellow breeches and black boots, standing before a brazier on a tripod pedestal on a rectangular marbled base (back left hand corner of base broken across and repaired, slight chip to one leg of table and to flames, his right boot restored), crowned interlaced C mark in blue to one side, painter's mark of an inverted S in green and incised :IFC:3:Wm, circa 1765