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A LUDWIGSBURG MINIATURE MARKET HOUSEHOLD GOODS VENDOR FROM THE JAHRMARKT OR CARNAVAL DE VENISE

CIRCA 1765, PAINTER'S RED S MARK FOR SAUSENHOFER, INCISED W. Z. W. 49.

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A LUDWIGSBURG MINIATURE MARKET HOUSEHOLD GOODS VENDOR FROM THE JAHRMARKT OR CARNAVAL DE VENISE
CIRCA 1765, PAINTER'S RED S MARK FOR SAUSENHOFER, INCISED W. Z. W. 49.
Wearing a black hat, blue coat, red waistcoat and yellow breeches, standing by his stall and leaning on a broom (?), the stall's cover pulled back to reveal his wares, the front propped on blocks, on a pale greyish-green washed shaped plinth base (half of broom [?] lacking, firing fault to left wrist or possibly small element lacking, minute chip and minute flake to brim of hat and dust-pan, very slight chipping to edge of base)
2½ in. (6.4 cm.) high

Provenance

Sir Bernard Eckstein, Bt., Collection, sale Sotheby's London, 30th May 1949, lot 83 (illustrated in Vol. II, pl. XVI).

Literature

Hans Dieter Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan (Stuttgart, 1997), p. 604, no. 864, where he points out that this is the only known example of this figure.

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Lot Essay

After Duke Carl Eugen Würtemburg's visit to Venice (1767-68), a fair was held in the Ludwigsburg marketplace as a divertissement for his court, and it is with this annual fair that the miniature Carnaval de Venise or Jahrmarkt series has been traditionally associated. The models are after designs by G.F.P. Riedel, and there appears to be no precise count of the component parts. The largest known assembled group, formerly in the possession of the Großherzöge von Baden, was sold by Sotheby's on 6th October 1995, lot 823. This included 112 different models, but other figures are known.

For a discussion of this series, see R. Jansen, 'Die Macht Einer Signatur Oder Zur Zuschreibung Einer Ludwigsburger Schäfergruppe', Keramos, April 1985, p. 10. Also see 'Alt Ludwigsburger Porzellan' Exhibition Catalogue, Schloss Ludwigsburg (1959), no. 118 et seq. For miniature figures, groups and stalls from the Jahrmarkt, or germaine to it, sold recently in these Rooms, see lots 33-47 from the Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection sold on 27th June 2005; lots 437 and 438 sold on 9th July 1997; lots 320-341 sold on 7th October 1996 and lots 53-60 from the Ernest F. Blohm Collection sold on 10th April 1989.

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