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A Ludwigsburg miniature group of street vendors from the 'Carnaval de Venise' Series
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A Ludwigsburg miniature group of street vendors from the 'Carnaval de Venise' Series

CIRCA 1765, PAINTER'S PUCE H MARK TO FOOTRIM

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A Ludwigsburg miniature group of street vendors from the 'Carnaval de Venise' Series
CIRCA 1765, PAINTER'S PUCE H MARK TO FOOTRIM
Modelled with a man wearing a wide-brimmed green-edged yellow hat, a green-edged white jacket, breeches and apron, standing holding a fruit in his left hand, his seated companion wearing a white bonnet and black chocker, a blue jacket, puce-edge white apron and russet skirt with puce dots, seated on a stool and holding a fruit in her right hand, with two baskets of fruit and vegetables at their feet and a small pile of root vegetables nearby, on a rectangular grassy rocky plinth base (restoration to brim of hat, slight and minute chipping to edge of base and fruit in their hands, minute chipping to contents of baskets, firing crack to base)
2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) high
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This group is from the Ludwigsburg miniature Jahrmarkt which is traditionally associated with the divertissement given for his court by Duke Carl Eugen of Würtemburg. The fair was held in the Ludwigsburg market-place every year following the Duke's visit to Venice in 1767/8. The original number of component parts appears to be unknown, but the numbers involved were substantial.

None of the figures or groups in the series appear to exist in more than four examples. The models are attributable to Jean Jacques Louis and the 'Elbs' modeller (working from 1760 to 1765). They are after designs by G.F.P. Riedel, and some appear to pre-date the first year of the fair. Cf. the Schloss Ludwigsburg exhibition catalogue Alt Ludwigsburger Porzellan (1959), no. 118 et seq.. Also see the 112 different models in the Sotheby's Baden Baden sale on 6th October 1995, lot 823, and the further 22 groups or figures germaine to the Jahrmarkt offered in these Rooms on 7th October 1996, lots 320-341.

This particular group appears to be a variant of a model sold in these Rooms on 6th October 1986, lot 120 and illustrated by Hans Dieter Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan (Stuttgart, 1997), p. 594, no. 758, where the man carries a pannier on his back.