Lot 281
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A FULDA SPORTING GROUP OF A HUNTRESS in a black tricorn hat, green-lined pink jacket and white skirt with a green hem, standing holding a rifle before a pair of billing doves, a bottle and a tumbler before a tree-stump, on a rocky mound base applied with foliage (her companion lacking, restoration to her right arm, rifle, branches of tree and foliage), blue crowned ff mark, circa 1780

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A FULDA SPORTING GROUP OF A HUNTRESS in a black tricorn hat, green-lined pink jacket and white skirt with a green hem, standing holding a rifle before a pair of billing doves, a bottle and a tumbler before a tree-stump, on a rocky mound base applied with foliage (her companion lacking, restoration to her right arm, rifle, branches of tree and foliage), blue crowned ff mark, circa 1780
16cm. high

Lot Essay

Adapted from the engraving Der Herbst by Johann Esaias Nilson for the Prince Bishop of Fulda, See E. Kramer, 'Kupferstiche von Johann Esais Nilson Fürden Fuldaer Fürstbischof', Keramos, no. 35 (1966), figs. 5/6. The comparable example from the Meinertzhagen Collection sold in these Rooms on 3 March 1986, lot 51 and exhibited at the Vonderau Museum, Fulda is illustrated by Christoph Fritzsche and Gregor Karl Stasch, Hochfürstlich Fuldische Porzellainmanufaktur 1764-89, pp. 102/103, no. 67

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