CIRCA 1760-65, BLUE CROWNED INTERLACED CS MARK

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A LUDWIGSBURG FIGURE OF L'ABBE
CIRCA 1760-65, BLUE CROWNED INTERLACED CS MARK
Modelled by Johann Wilhelm Götz, his head turned slightly to the right, wearing a long black yellow-lined cloak, a pink jacket, a pale-blue collar, red waistcoat and pale-green breeches and black shoes, on a scroll-moulded grassy domed base enriched in gilding (left wrist cracked and restored, restoration and regilding to both sleeves, small restored chip to right collar of cloak, slight chipping to footrim, minute chip to hem of cloak, very minor rubbing to gilding)
6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm.) high

Provenance

L. Steinemann Collection, Zürich.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 9 November 1987, lot 41.
'An Important Swiss Collection of European Porcelain', sale Christie's, London, 21 February 2005, lot 202.
With Daniela Kumpf, Wiesbaden, from whom it was acquired on 15 June 2007.

Literature

Siegfried Ducret, German Porcelain and Faience, with Vienna, Zürich and Nyon, London, 1962, pp. 108-109, no. 30.
Peter Wilhelm Meister and Horst Reber, Europäisches Porzellan, Fribourg, 1980, p. 202, pl. 173.
Birte Abraham, Commedia dell'Arte, The Patricia & Rodes Hart Collection of European Porcelain and Faience, Amsterdam, 2010, pp. 134-135.

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Lot Essay

Johann Wilhelm Götz was chief modeller at Ludwigsburg, joining the factory in March 1759. The factory produced no less than four different comedy series by various modellers, two of which are attributed to Götz. These types of figures show characters from the comédie française, which was enjoyed at the Württemberg court. Götz's 'Abbé de cour' belongs to a series of actors of which there are four single figures and a group of two characters. There is some debate over his costume; although he is traditionally thought to be a clergyman, his periwig and habit are more akin to a lawyer, magistrate or scholar. Ducret ibid. points out that only three examples of this rare figure are known; the present lot, the example in the Cecil Higgins Museum, Bedford and the example in the Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart (inv. no. 1958-17).

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