A LUDWIGSBURG MINIATURE FIGURE OF A PHARMACIST
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A LUDWIGSBURG MINIATURE FIGURE OF A PHARMACIST

CIRCA 1765, BLUE INTERLACED CS TO END OF BASE

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A LUDWIGSBURG MINIATURE FIGURE OF A PHARMACIST
CIRCA 1765, BLUE INTERLACED CS TO END OF BASE
Modelled with a lady preparing medicine in a bowl, wearing a white bonnet, white ruff and white puce-edged jacket, red bodice, her white skirt with puce dots, her sleeves rolled up, the table with a green oval table-top and scrolling tripod foot enriched in gilding, on a green white-edged wedge-shaped plinth base (slight chipping to edge of base, one of bonnet straps lacking, minute chipping to ribbons at back)
2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm.) high
Provenance
With A. Torre, from whom it was purchased in 1968.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

See H.D. Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan (1997), p. 608, no. 917 for a similar example.

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