A LUDWIGSBURG GROUP EMBLEMATIC OF THE SEASONS perhaps modelled by Pierre François Lejeune, the four figures about an arbour wearing coloured and patterned clothes, Spring as a gardener carrying a watering-can and standing beside a flower-pot before a well, Summer holding fruit in her apron and seated on a sheaf of corn, Autumn climbing the pierced arbour entwined with trailing vine picking grapes, a basket of grapes at his feet, Winter in a fur-lined jacket and seated warming her hands over a fire (restoration to tree, left arm of Spring, watering-can, flower in flower-pot and fire, minor chips to flowers and foliage), blue crowned interlaced C mark, incised Wn1, circa 1770