CIRCA 1765

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Two Frankenthal figures of grenadiers
Circa 1765
Modelled by Johann Friedrich Lück, each with a moustache and their hair en queue, wearing brown gilt-edged tricorn hats, white uniforms with puce lapels and gilt buttons, leather satchels slung from straps on their backs, puce breeches, brown shoes and sabres suspended from straps to their left, one standing to attention with his musket resting on the ground, the other holding his musket in his left hand and reaching for his satchel with the other, on black plinth bases (bases replacements, one musket lacking, majority of other musket lacking, further smaller damages and restorations)
The tallest 8 1/8 in. (20.3 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

Five very similar, but undecorated, soldiers are illustrated by Friedrich H. Hofmann, Frankenthaler Porzellan (Munich, 1911), pl. 56, nos. 249-253. Interestingly, all these figures have also lost their original bases. A white figure of an injured soldier (perhaps never intended to have a base) is illustrated as no. 256 and two decorated soldiers are illustrated as nos. 255 and 257 (one with a scroll-moulded base).

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