CIRCA 1765, HE WITH RAMPANT LION MARK IN BLUE, SHE WITH IMPRESSED PH:1

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A pair of Frankenthal figures of cooks
Circa 1765, he with rampant lion mark in blue, she with impressed PH:1
Modelled by J.W. Lanz, he breaking eggs into his hat before a table wearing a white jacket and apron and black breeches and shoes, she making sausages and standing before a square table in a white cap and apron, green blouse and puce striped skirt, each standing on a shaped brown rockwork base (he broken through at right ankle and left foot and restuck to base and table at knees, she with some mis-firing to green enamel and with flaking to right foot)
7½ in. (19 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

Cf. Friedrich H. Hofmann, Frankenthaler Porzellan (Münich 1911), pl. 33, nos. 152 and 153 for a similar illustrated pair from the Fritz Buckardt Collection, Berlin. Also see the male cook sold in these Rooms on 13th April 1967, lot 105 and the pair of figures by Christie's Geneva on 11th November 1985, lot 57.

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