A FRANKENTHAL FIGURE OF A TRINKET-SELLER modelled by Johann Friedrich Lück, in a green hat, orange bodice and puce-striped skirt, displaying a box of wares including spectacles, bonbonieres, knives and forks and holding up a shell-shaped snuff-box in her right hand, standing on a gilt scroll-moulded mound base (restoration to hat box, front of hat, straps of trinket-box, left arm, left thumb and right arm at wrist, chip to tray), blue crowned CT mark above R, circa 1758

Details

A FRANKENTHAL FIGURE OF A TRINKET-SELLER modelled by Johann Friedrich Lück, in a green hat, orange bodice and puce-striped skirt, displaying a box of wares including spectacles, bonbonieres, knives and forks and holding up a shell-shaped snuff-box in her right hand, standing on a gilt scroll-moulded mound base (restoration to hat box, front of hat, straps of trinket-box, left arm, left thumb and right arm at wrist, chip to tray), blue crowned CT mark above R, circa 1758
18cm. high

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's Geneva, 2 October 1969, lot 57
Ernesto F. Blohm, sale Christie's London, 10 April 1989, lot 45

Lot Essay

Cf. F. H. Hofmann, Frankenthaler Porzellan, vol. 1, pl. 68, fig. 294. This figure is modelled after a Meissen original; a very similar model is also found at Höchst

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