A Ludwigsburg bacchantes group

CIRCA 1760, MARKED WITH A DOUBLE UNDERGLAZE BLUE C ON THE UNDERSIDE OF THE HOLLOW BASE

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A Ludwigsburg bacchantes group
Circa 1760, marked with a double underglaze blue C on the underside of the hollow base
Modelled by Johann Christian Wilhelm Beyer, with a languid nude nymph lying on a striped garment before an obelisk, her head resting on the right arm of a naked crouching faun with goat's ears, hooves and a small goat's tail, her left arm raised in a gesture of love towards the faun's head, her right arm lazily outstretched and holding a bunch of fruit in her hand, a little naked faun with goat's ears and hooves sleeps in the nymph's lap, the background with a white obelisk decorated on four sides with gilt musical trophies suspended on draped bands of purple, on a square two-tiered base, the long rockwork base applied with naturalistic moss (chipped)
21,5 cm. (8 1/2 in.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. O. Wanner-Brandt, Album der Erzeugnisse der ehemaligen Württembergischen Manufaktur Alt Ludwigsburg (Stuttgart 1906), no. 87, text p. 32 (without obelisk)
L. Balet, Ludwigsburger Porzellan (Stuttgart and Leipzig 1911), no. 145, text p. 113
H. Christ, Ludwigsburger Porzellanfiguren (Stuttgart and Berlin 1921), no. 106, ill. p. 80, text p. 57
E. Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German porcelain, volume II (London 1972), ill. p. 291, text p. 290

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