Lot Essay
Cf. the example in the Eckstein Collection sold by Sotheby's on 30 May 1949, lot 71.
CIRCA 1765, BLUE INTERLACED C MARK
Details
A Ludwigsburg miniature group of dancing peasants
Circa 1765, blue interlaced C mark
Modelled as a couple dancing, a man playing the hurdy-gurdy and another holding a tankard before a table, in coloured and patterned clothes enriched in gilding, on a rectangular green and grey base (restoration to one corner of table and around the base of the tankard, man holding tankard broken from base and repaired)
2½in. (6.5cm.) high
Circa 1765, blue interlaced C mark
Modelled as a couple dancing, a man playing the hurdy-gurdy and another holding a tankard before a table, in coloured and patterned clothes enriched in gilding, on a rectangular green and grey base (restoration to one corner of table and around the base of the tankard, man holding tankard broken from base and repaired)
2½in. (6.5cm.) high