A Ludwigsburg miniature group of two couples quarrelling

CIRCA 1765, BLUE CROWNED INTERLACED C MARK, IRON-RED PAINTER'S INVERTED S MARK

Details

A Ludwigsburg miniature group of two couples quarrelling
Circa 1765, blue crowned interlaced C mark, iron-red painter's inverted S mark
Modelled as a man pulling the hair of a kneeling woman and another woman pulling his hair, another man sloping away, in coloured clothes about a table on a rectangular green and brown base (part of candlestick lacking)
3in. (7.5cm.) high

Provenance

Sammlung Emma Budge, Hamburg (old collection label no. 40), sale Paul Graupe, Berlin, 27-29 September 1937, lot 958e.

Lot Essay

Cf. the example from the Ernesto F. Blohm Collection sold in these Rooms on 10 April 1989, lot 55; this group is lacking one figure. The group would appear to depict a father scolding his daughter for her unsuitable choice of lover.

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