Lot Essay
For the female figure, see F.H. Hofmann, Frankenthaler Porzellan (Munich, 1911), Vol II, pl. 117, fig. 478, and pl. 117, fig. 499 for her companion.
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CIRCA 1765, BLUE CROWNED INTERLACED CT MARKS
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A PAIR OF FRANKENTHAL CHINOISERIE FIGURES OF FRUIT SELLERS
CIRCA 1765, BLUE CROWNED INTERLACED CT MARKS
Modelled by K.G. Lück, each wearing red flowered white robes and yellow shoes, the mustachioed man wearing a yellow-lined pointed white hat, the lady in a gilt-edged hat with a pendant tubular top, a yellow sash at her waist and a puce-striped skirt, standing before a rock holding an oval basket of fruit, the man resting his tub of fruit on his right knee, standing before a tree-stump with his right foot on a rock, on high green-washed mound bases edged with gilt scrolling foliage (lady with minute chip to left index finger, base of other figure with very slight wear to gilding)
4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm.) and 4 7/8 in. (12.3 cm.) high (2)
CIRCA 1765, BLUE CROWNED INTERLACED CT MARKS
Modelled by K.G. Lück, each wearing red flowered white robes and yellow shoes, the mustachioed man wearing a yellow-lined pointed white hat, the lady in a gilt-edged hat with a pendant tubular top, a yellow sash at her waist and a puce-striped skirt, standing before a rock holding an oval basket of fruit, the man resting his tub of fruit on his right knee, standing before a tree-stump with his right foot on a rock, on high green-washed mound bases edged with gilt scrolling foliage (lady with minute chip to left index finger, base of other figure with very slight wear to gilding)
4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm.) and 4 7/8 in. (12.3 cm.) high (2)
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