CIRCA 1765-70, RED MONOGRAM MARK, INCISED C:1ZC 49

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A LUDWIGSBURG MINIATURE FIGURE OF A WHEELRIGHT
CIRCA 1765-70, RED MONOGRAM MARK, INCISED C:1ZC 49
Wearing a white bonnet, black choker, red-striped yellow shawl, blue-edged white jacket and apron, red, white and yellow striped skirt and black shoes, standing with a wheel infront of her steadied with her left hand, holding a smoothing iron under her right arm, on a shaped rectangular base with canted corners and slightly washed in green (section of wheel lacking, some residue of old repair remaining, small chip to edge of base at front)
2¼ in. (5.9 cm.) high

Provenance

The Grand Duke of Baden
Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, sale Sotheby's London, 5th July 1960, lot 163, part (£120 to Chester)
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.

Literature

Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), p. 203, no. 300 and col. pl. 81.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

See Hans D. Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan (Stuttgart, 1997), p. 609, no. 921, and see Wanner-Brandt, Album der Erzeugnisse der ehemaligen Wurttembergischen Manufaktur Alt-Ludwigsburg (Stuttgart, 1906), no. 482. A similar figure was in the Baden Jahrmarkt.

Underside of base inscribed O.B. 1502. in black ink.

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