A VIENNA GROUP OF CHILD MUSICIANS in coloured jackets and breeches, one playing a bugle while the other kneels supporting the bugle and holding a gun, his drum and drum-sticks beside him, on a green mound base edged with gilt foliate scrolls before a tree (tree repaired, chips to hats, bugle and tree); and a group of peasant and companion in coloured and patterned clothes walking arm-in-arm on a shaped mound base (three arms and her left hand repaired, chips to extremities), blue beehive marks to both and various incised marks, circa 1765
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A VIENNA GROUP OF CHILD MUSICIANS in coloured jackets and breeches, one playing a bugle while the other kneels supporting the bugle and holding a gun, his drum and drum-sticks beside him, on a green mound base edged with gilt foliate scrolls before a tree (tree repaired, chips to hats, bugle and tree); and a group of peasant and companion in coloured and patterned clothes walking arm-in-arm on a shaped mound base (three arms and her left hand repaired, chips to extremities), blue beehive marks to both and various incised marks, circa 1765
19cm. and 17cm. high (2)
Lot Essay
Cf. Wilhelm Mrazek & Waltraud Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864, no. 491