Lot Essay
A similar figure is illustrated by Flach ibid., p. 608, no. 908. This figure was not in the Baden Jahrmarkt.
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CIRCA 1765-70, BLUE INTERLACED C MONOGRAM TO CORNER OF BASE AT BACK, UNDERSIDE INCISED J:W:S:
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A LUDWIGSBURG MINIATURE FIGURE OF A BUTCHER'S GIRL
CIRCA 1765-70, BLUE INTERLACED C MONOGRAM TO CORNER OF BASE AT BACK, UNDERSIDE INCISED J:W:S:
Wearing a white bonnet with puce straps, a black choker with a gilt pendant, a red bodice over a white chemise leaving her right shoulder bare, a purple-edged white apron with purple clustered dots, a blue-edged white skirt with blue clustered dots, and yellow shoes, standing holding a tray of sausages, on a shaped green-washed base with canted corners (minute chip to bonnet, straps partially lacking, minute chipping to edge of base, slight wear to enamels)
2 3/8 in. (6.2 cm.) high
CIRCA 1765-70, BLUE INTERLACED C MONOGRAM TO CORNER OF BASE AT BACK, UNDERSIDE INCISED J:W:S:
Wearing a white bonnet with puce straps, a black choker with a gilt pendant, a red bodice over a white chemise leaving her right shoulder bare, a purple-edged white apron with purple clustered dots, a blue-edged white skirt with blue clustered dots, and yellow shoes, standing holding a tray of sausages, on a shaped green-washed base with canted corners (minute chip to bonnet, straps partially lacking, minute chipping to edge of base, slight wear to enamels)
2 3/8 in. (6.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Stahl Collection, no. 147 (according to paper label attached to underside of base)
Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, sale Sotheby's London, 5th July 1960, lot 163, part (£120 to Chester)
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.
Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, sale Sotheby's London, 5th July 1960, lot 163, part (£120 to Chester)
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.
Literature
Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), p. 204, no. 306 and col. pl. 80.
Special notice
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