A FRANKENTHAL GROUP OF "DIE GUTE MUTTER" modelled by Karl Gottlieb Lück, she seated in a low chair in pink and iron-red striped dress and white blouse and cap, breast-feeding her child whose rocking cradle is at her side another child in a high-chair to her left on a shaped green mound base applied with moss and flowers and edged with moulded gilt scrolls (restoration to child's chair, extremities of cradle), indistinct blue rampant lion mark to base, circa 1759

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A FRANKENTHAL GROUP OF "DIE GUTE MUTTER" modelled by Karl Gottlieb Lück, she seated in a low chair in pink and iron-red striped dress and white blouse and cap, breast-feeding her child whose rocking cradle is at her side another child in a high-chair to her left on a shaped green mound base applied with moss and flowers and edged with moulded gilt scrolls (restoration to child's chair, extremities of cradle), indistinct blue rampant lion mark to base, circa 1759
22cm. wide

Lot Essay

Inspired by an engraving by L Cars and C. Donat-Jardinier after Greuze, see Siegfried Ducret, Keramik und Graphik des 18 Jahrhunderts,, no. 422

Cf. Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 174-5; F.H. Hofmann, Frankenthal Porzellan, vol. II, pl. 114

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