CIRCA 1770, BLUE INTERLACED C MARK

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A LUDWIGSBURG FIGURE OF A PRINT-SELLER
CIRCA 1770, BLUE INTERLACED C MARK
Modelled by Pierre François Lejeune, the barefoot woman standing before rockwork, holding a roll of prints, the uppermost painted in iron-red with a Crucifixion scene, with a wicker basket of printing inks and tools on her back, wearing a white jacket and hat edged in turquoise, purple and gilding and a gilt-edged black skirt, the circular grassy base moulded with two gilt C-scrolls (restoration to upper body, both arms and basket straps)
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For a similar example of this figure, see Hans Dieter Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan, Stuttgart, 1997, p. 554, no. 413. Another example, with variations to the contents of her basket, is illustrated (with her male companion print-seller) by Hans Christ, Ludwigsburger Porzellanfiguren, Stuttgart and Berlin, 1921, p. 44.

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