Lot Essay
This figure is described by Flach as 'Kavalier Tabaro a bauta', see Hans Dieter Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan (Stuttgart, 1997).
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CIRCA 1765-70, BLACK REVERSED S MARK
Details
A LUDWIGSBURG MINIATURE FIGURE OF A MASKED VENETIAN CAVALIER
CIRCA 1765-70, BLACK REVERSED S MARK
Wearing a black tricorn hat, white mask, black shoulder cape, red cloak and black shoes, his pale-blue jacket and breeches with gilt trimming, standing with his right hand tucked into his jacket and his left concealed beneath his cloak, on a grey-washed rectangular plinth base with canted corners (slight chipping to hem of cloak mainly on interior side, one corner of hat with small chip to underside, minute chipping to edge of base)
2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm.) high
CIRCA 1765-70, BLACK REVERSED S MARK
Wearing a black tricorn hat, white mask, black shoulder cape, red cloak and black shoes, his pale-blue jacket and breeches with gilt trimming, standing with his right hand tucked into his jacket and his left concealed beneath his cloak, on a grey-washed rectangular plinth base with canted corners (slight chipping to hem of cloak mainly on interior side, one corner of hat with small chip to underside, minute chipping to edge of base)
2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, sale Sotheby's London, 5th July 1960, lot 165 (£160 to Chester)
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.
Literature
Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), p. 204, no. 309 and col. pl. 82.
Hans Dieter Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan (Stuttgart, 1997), p. 590, no. 730 (part). This figure is described by Flach as 'Kavalier Tabaro a bauta'.
Hans Dieter Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan (Stuttgart, 1997), p. 590, no. 730 (part). This figure is described by Flach as 'Kavalier Tabaro a bauta'.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.