CIRCA 1785, BLUE CROWNED FF MARK

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A FULDA GROUP OF A YOUTH FEEDING A HOUND AND A CAT
CIRCA 1785, BLUE CROWNED FF MARK
Modelled by Georg Ludwig Bartolomae, wearing a black peaked cap tied with a yellow ribbon, flowered jacket and striped breeches, standing with one hand raised, the other pointing to a seated cat and a hound feeding by a kennel, on a mound base (restoration to cap, thumb and left forefinger, chipping to right little and index fingers, chip to corner of kennel roof at back, minor flaking to black enamels, hairline crack to top of hound's forepaw, filled gap between his leg and kennel)
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high

Literature

Siegfried Ducret, 18th Century Porcelain (Zürich, 1971), fig. 57.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

An example from the Goldblatt Collection was sold by Sotheby's London in May 1956, lot 184 and subsequently from the Meinertzhagen Collection sold in these Rooms on 3rd March 1986, lot 42. See Christoph Fritzsche et. al, 'Hochfürstlich Fuldische Porzellainmanufaktur 1764-1789' Vonderau-Museum and Hetjens-Museum Exhibition Catalogue (Fulda, 1994), no. 32 for another example, and where the other known examples are listed.

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