A PAIR OF FRANKENTHAL FIGURES OF A GALLANT AND COMPANION modelled by Johann Friedrich Lück, he in a puce-chequered white jacket with iron-red flowerheads, white shirt and pink breeches, holding a black tricorn hat in his left hand, she with long ringlets and in a white cap and bodice, white apron trimmed in puce and flowered and striped skirt with a puce-edged white hem, with a bird perched on her finger and an open bird-cage supported on her hip, both standing, he before a scroll support, on shaped mound bases moulded with scrolls and enriched with gilding (his left hand broken at wrist, hand and cuff restored, slight chip to neck bow and to corner and hem of jacket, chip to tail of bird and her cuffs and door of bird-cage lacking), blue rampant lion marks and JAH monograms, circa 1760

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A PAIR OF FRANKENTHAL FIGURES OF A GALLANT AND COMPANION modelled by Johann Friedrich Lück, he in a puce-chequered white jacket with iron-red flowerheads, white shirt and pink breeches, holding a black tricorn hat in his left hand, she with long ringlets and in a white cap and bodice, white apron trimmed in puce and flowered and striped skirt with a puce-edged white hem, with a bird perched on her finger and an open bird-cage supported on her hip, both standing, he before a scroll support, on shaped mound bases moulded with scrolls and enriched with gilding (his left hand broken at wrist, hand and cuff restored, slight chip to neck bow and to corner and hem of jacket, chip to tail of bird and her cuffs and door of bird-cage lacking), blue rampant lion marks and JAH monograms, circa 1760
20.5cm. high (2)
Provenance
Ole Olsen Collection
Literature
Hermann Schmitz, Generaldirektor Ole Olsens Kunstsamlinger, no. 1625 a & b

F. H. Hoffmann, op. cit., pl. 60

Lot Essay

F.H. Hoffmann, Frankenthaler Porzellan, pl. 60

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