A FRANKENTHAL GROUP OF A SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS modelled by Johann Friedrich Lück as a youth in purple-striped jacket and black breeches, leaning over a wicket fence retrieving a basket of flowers from a reclining shepherdess her dog at her feet flanked by a sheaf of corn and bagpipes on an oval green mound base edged with moulded gilt scrolls (minor restoration to corn), crowned interlaced CT mark and 77 for 1777
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A FRANKENTHAL GROUP OF A SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS modelled by Johann Friedrich Lück as a youth in purple-striped jacket and black breeches, leaning over a wicket fence retrieving a basket of flowers from a reclining shepherdess her dog at her feet flanked by a sheaf of corn and bagpipes on an oval green mound base edged with moulded gilt scrolls (minor restoration to corn), crowned interlaced CT mark and 77 for 1777
19.5cm. wide
Provenance
Mrs. Charles E. Dunlap sale Sotheby's New York, 3 December 1975, lot 270 Anon., sale Sotheby's, 14 June 1988, lot 198
Lot Essay
Cf. Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 156-157