A RARE FULDA PORCELAIN 'LE PANIER MYSTERIEUX' GROUP, after an engraving by Rene Guillard, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief with a reclining young lady wearing a tight dotted bodice with blue ribbons and puff sleeves, a purple-striped yellow skirt over a gilt flowered petticoat, and a young shepherd boy wearing a yellow shirt, grey dotted sash and purple-striped light-blue trousers, a pink flowing garment draped over his shoulders, offering her a flowerfilled basket containing a letter, a dog seated at their feet beside a flowerfilled pink hat, a huge hollow gnarled treestump with branch beside them, on shaped grassy rockwork mound base applied with leaves and florettes (handle of basket and some florettes broken; the finger of the lady, a detail of the pink garment and the hat repaired), marked with an L in black and with a blue cross, ca. 1770 | Christie's

Lot 384

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A RARE FULDA PORCELAIN 'LE PANIER MYSTERIEUX' GROUP, after an engraving by Rene Guillard, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief with a reclining young lady wearing a tight dotted bodice with blue ribbons and puff sleeves, a purple-striped yellow skirt over a gilt flowered petticoat, and a young shepherd boy wearing a yellow shirt, grey dotted sash and purple-striped light-blue trousers, a pink flowing garment draped over his shoulders, offering her a flowerfilled basket containing a letter, a dog seated at their feet beside a flowerfilled pink hat, a huge hollow gnarled treestump with branch beside them, on shaped grassy rockwork mound base applied with leaves and florettes (handle of basket and some florettes broken; the finger of the lady, a detail of the pink garment and the hat repaired), marked with an L in black and with a blue cross, ca. 1770

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A RARE FULDA PORCELAIN 'LE PANIER MYSTERIEUX' GROUP, after an engraving by Rene Guillard, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief with a reclining young lady wearing a tight dotted bodice with blue ribbons and puff sleeves, a purple-striped yellow skirt over a gilt flowered petticoat, and a young shepherd boy wearing a yellow shirt, grey dotted sash and purple-striped light-blue trousers, a pink flowing garment draped over his shoulders, offering her a flowerfilled basket containing a letter, a dog seated at their feet beside a flowerfilled pink hat, a huge hollow gnarled treestump with branch beside them, on shaped grassy rockwork mound base applied with leaves and florettes (handle of basket and some florettes broken; the finger of the lady, a detail of the pink garment and the hat repaired), marked with an L in black and with a blue cross, ca. 1770
22.5 cm high, 24 cm wide

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Lot Essay

C.f - J.H. Josten, Fuldaer Porzellan, p. 23 ill. 16
- P.W. Meister and H. Reber, European Porcelain of the 18th Century, p. 212 ill. 393
- E. Kramer, Keramos, 13/61 p. 3 ill. 3

Fulda was not a very large factory. We only know of about a hundred figures and groups produced there. This 'Le panier mystérieux' group is a compilation from a similarly named Frankenthal group and the Höchst group called 'Amynthas und Sylvia'

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