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This group is not recorded by Friedrich Hofmann in Frankenthaler Porzellan (Munich, 1911), and may be an unique example.
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CIRCA 1765, CROWNED CT MONOGRAM MARK TO UNDERSIDE OF SLEIGH
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A FRANKENTHAL SLEIGH GROUP
CIRCA 1765, CROWNED CT MONOGRAM MARK TO UNDERSIDE OF SLEIGH
Modelled with a lady and a footman on a sleigh, each in fur-edged clothes, the footman holding the reins, his legs astride and resting on the rails, the lady seated before him with her hands in a fur muff, the purple diaper-pattern curved seat edged with blue and gilt scrolls, supported by four winged dolphins on two converging rails, the white horse caparisoned in a puce backcloth with pendant tassels and straps studded with yellow bells, the large yoke about its neck with a bell, supported below by a coloured tree-stump (breaks through rails, dolphins and footman crudely repaired, side section of seat and three of horse's legs restuck, tree-stump a later ceramic addition, damages and repairs to yoke, further chipping and small repairs)
The sleigh 13 3/16 in. (33.5 cm.) long and 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) high; the horse 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high
CIRCA 1765, CROWNED CT MONOGRAM MARK TO UNDERSIDE OF SLEIGH
Modelled with a lady and a footman on a sleigh, each in fur-edged clothes, the footman holding the reins, his legs astride and resting on the rails, the lady seated before him with her hands in a fur muff, the purple diaper-pattern curved seat edged with blue and gilt scrolls, supported by four winged dolphins on two converging rails, the white horse caparisoned in a puce backcloth with pendant tassels and straps studded with yellow bells, the large yoke about its neck with a bell, supported below by a coloured tree-stump (breaks through rails, dolphins and footman crudely repaired, side section of seat and three of horse's legs restuck, tree-stump a later ceramic addition, damages and repairs to yoke, further chipping and small repairs)
The sleigh 13 3/16 in. (33.5 cm.) long and 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) high; the horse 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high
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