A FULDA FIGURE OF A STREET VENDOR from the Cris de Paris series modelled by Georg Ludwig Bartholome in black hat, yellow-edged white blouse, pink skirt and iron-red flowered underskirt and carrying a basket of eggs, a duck in a basket over her back surmounted by two birds in a cage on a domed base moulded with purple scrolls (restoration to hat, right arm, part of both baskets, the bird-cage and duck restored replacements), blue X mark, circa 1770
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A FULDA FIGURE OF A STREET VENDOR from the Cris de Paris series modelled by Georg Ludwig Bartholome in black hat, yellow-edged white blouse, pink skirt and iron-red flowered underskirt and carrying a basket of eggs, a duck in a basket over her back surmounted by two birds in a cage on a domed base moulded with purple scrolls (restoration to hat, right arm, part of both baskets, the bird-cage and duck restored replacements), blue X mark, circa 1770
15cm. high
Lot Essay
Cf. Ernst Kramer, Fuldaer Porzellan in Hessischen Sammlungen, abb. 12 and a similar example sold Christie's Geneva, 11 May 1981, lot 11