1765-1767, BLUE CROWNED CARL EUGEN MONOGRAM MARK AND A LARGE S

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A Ludwigsburg porcelain chinoiserie arbour group
1765-1767, BLUE CROWNED CARL EUGEN MONOGRAM MARK AND A LARGE S
Chinesin Gitterlaube, modelled by J.A. Weinmüller, gilt and painted in colours, depicting a seated Oriental lady wearing a head shawl enhanced with strings of beads, a flowing garment with lilac dotted ornamental motifs, a pale yellow coat, yellow slippers, seated on a large green cushion, her left foot on a small red cushion, holding her right hand in an imploring gesture, in front of an elaborate flower-encrusted arched ajour arbour applied with five tiny bells, on shaped moss-encrusted rockwork base (small fire crack to reverse arbour with minor overpainting, chips and small losses to gilt bells on arbour extremities and to the extremities of the fingers of his right hand)
27.5 cm. high

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Lot Essay

See E. Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century, Volume II, London, 1972, ill. p. 249.
H.D. Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan, Stuttgart, 1997, p. 565 ill. 515.

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