Lot Essay
The example of this model in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, is illustrated by Hofmann, op. cit. (Munich, 1911), Vol. I, pl. 82, no. 358.
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CIRCA 1765, BLUE CROWNED CT MONOGRAM ABOVE AB MONOGRAM
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A FRANKENTHAL FIGURE OF A MUSICIAN
CIRCA 1765, BLUE CROWNED CT MONOGRAM ABOVE AB MONOGRAM
Modelled by Konrad Link as a lady wearing a plumed hat tied with a ribbon, a flowing white coat, pale-yellow apron and flowered skirt, playing a mandolin, standing on a scroll-moulded mound base enriched in gilding (chipping to ribbons, restoration to fingers, neck of mandolin and feathers in hat, minor chipping to sleeve, edge of apron, coat and edge of base)
6 5/8 in. (16.9 cm.) high
CIRCA 1765, BLUE CROWNED CT MONOGRAM ABOVE AB MONOGRAM
Modelled by Konrad Link as a lady wearing a plumed hat tied with a ribbon, a flowing white coat, pale-yellow apron and flowered skirt, playing a mandolin, standing on a scroll-moulded mound base enriched in gilding (chipping to ribbons, restoration to fingers, neck of mandolin and feathers in hat, minor chipping to sleeve, edge of apron, coat and edge of base)
6 5/8 in. (16.9 cm.) high
Provenance
With Bednarczyk, from whom it was acquired in 1963.
Special notice
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