Lot 141
141
TWO FRANKENTHAL FIGURES OF DER KAUFMANN AND DIE KAUFMANNSFRAU
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TWO FRANKENTHAL FIGURES OF DER KAUFMANN AND DIE KAUFMANNSFRAU

THE MERCHANT'S WIFE CIRCA 1760, BLUE RAMPANT LION MARK TO BACK OF BASE AND PUCE G:H: MARK TO UNDERSIDE; THE MERCHANT CIRCA 1765, UNDERSIDE WITH BLUE CROWNED CT MONOGRAM MARK AND INCISED H:N 2

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TWO FRANKENTHAL FIGURES OF DER KAUFMANN AND DIE KAUFMANNSFRAU
THE MERCHANT'S WIFE CIRCA 1760, BLUE RAMPANT LION MARK TO BACK OF BASE AND PUCE G:H: MARK TO UNDERSIDE; THE MERCHANT CIRCA 1765, UNDERSIDE WITH BLUE CROWNED CT MONOGRAM MARK AND INCISED H:N 2
Each seated at tables and writing in ledgers, the merchant in a flowered white frock-coat and waistcoat, puce breeches and yellow shoes, his table-top with an ink-well and sander, glass and a bottle, with barrels and packages strewn at his feet, his wife wearing a lace cap, her flowered clothes with iron-red stripes, her table-top with writing implements and a sealed letter, tied packages and a carrying basket of bottles at her feet, both writing with quills and on white mound bases edged with gilt scrolls (his table and objects on it porcelain replacements, restoration to chair legs, barrel, his feet, right arm, hand and quill, her chair back a porcelain replacement with restoration at join and legs, table-top, book on lap, quill and back of base, minute chip to bowl on table)
The merchant 6 in. (15.2 cm.) high; his wife 6¾ in. (17.1 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
The late Mrs. Derek FitzGerald of Heathfield Park, and by descent to the present owner.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

See Friedrich H. Hofmann, Frankenthaler Porzellan (Munich, 1911), Vol. 1, pl. 65, nos. 281 and 282 for comparable figures, which he attributes to Johann Friedrich Lück. For a discussion of J.F. Lück, see W.B. Honey, European Ceramic Art (London, 1952), p. 247, where he argues that this attribution is doubtful. A similar pair from the Max Hoffmann Collection were sold in these Rooms on 21st November 2005, lot 159.

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