Lot Essay
Another example is illustrated by Flach, ibid., p. 606, no. 883.
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CIRCA 1765-70, BLACK REVERSED S MARK
Details
A LUDWIGSBURG MINIATURE FIGURE OF A MASKED VENETIAN LADY
CIRCA 1765-70, BLACK REVERSED S MARK
Wearing a black tricorn hat, white mask, long black domino and blue shoes, her pale-blue skirt with a russet and brown bordered pale-yellow apron, holding another white mask in her right hand and standing on a rectangular plinth base with canted corners (head restuck, hat chipped and with slight restoration, chip and minute chipping to base, minute chip to domino at back, slight wear to black enamel)
2½ in. (6.3 cm.) high
CIRCA 1765-70, BLACK REVERSED S MARK
Wearing a black tricorn hat, white mask, long black domino and blue shoes, her pale-blue skirt with a russet and brown bordered pale-yellow apron, holding another white mask in her right hand and standing on a rectangular plinth base with canted corners (head restuck, hat chipped and with slight restoration, chip and minute chipping to base, minute chip to domino at back, slight wear to black enamel)
2½ in. (6.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, sale Sotheby's London, 5th July 1960, lot 166, part (£190 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. 308 and col. pl. 82.
Hans Dieter Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan (Stuttgart, 1997), p. 590, no. 730 (part).
Hans Dieter Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan (Stuttgart, 1997), p. 590, no. 730 (part).
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.