A LUDWIGSBURG GROUP OF DANCERS

CIRCA 1765, BLUE CROWNED INTERLACED C MARK, INCISED Z. AND CC.3.X., PAINTER'S MARK, MODELLED BY JOSEPH NEES

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A LUDWIGSBURG GROUP OF DANCERS
circa 1765, blue crowned interlaced C mark, incised z. and cc.3.x., painter's mark, modelled by Joseph Nees
With a dancer and companion pirouetting, she reached around his waist, he has his right arm behind his back, each with the other arm raised, she in a hat, blue-lined pink jacket, skirt with blue sprigs, yellow and puce striped and flowered apron, he in a hat, blue-lined coat, striped waistcoat and pink breeches, on a tree-stump oval base moulded with puce scrolls
66 (16cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Hans Dieter Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan, Stuttgart, 1997,
p. 515, figs. 99, 100