A FULDA FIGURE OF AN OPERA DANCER modelled by Georg Ludwig Bartholome, in a black hat with a white brim, trimmed with flowers and bows, white jacket, purple striped and iron-red flowered waistcoat and breeches, standing on tip-toe slightly turned to his right, on a D-shaped base with a rococo scroll support enriched in puce (his left arm a restored replacement, flower garland lacking, chips to flowers, bows and little finger on his right hand), crowned ff mark, circa 1785

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A FULDA FIGURE OF AN OPERA DANCER modelled by Georg Ludwig Bartholome, in a black hat with a white brim, trimmed with flowers and bows, white jacket, purple striped and iron-red flowered waistcoat and breeches, standing on tip-toe slightly turned to his right, on a D-shaped base with a rococo scroll support enriched in puce (his left arm a restored replacement, flower garland lacking, chips to flowers, bows and little finger on his right hand), crowned ff mark, circa 1785
16.5cm. high

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Cf. Ernst Kramer, Fuldaer Porzellan in Hessischen Sammlungen, no. 14 for a similar example together with his companion which was inspired by Lancret, the companion figure was also produced at Frankenthal and there modelled by Karl Gottlieb Lück

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