CIRCA 1765, INTERLACED BLUE C MONOGRAM, PAINTER'S RED ARROW AND CIRCLE MARK AND INCISED FI: 3.N.F. ,

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A LUDWIGSBURG MINIATURE SATIRICAL GROUP
CIRCA 1765, INTERLACED BLUE C MONOGRAM, PAINTER'S RED ARROW AND CIRCLE MARK AND INCISED Fi: 3.N.F. ,
Possibly modelled by Jean Jacques Louis, with a courtier wearing an excessively large hair ribbon and attempting to walk through a dilapidated archway, aided by his servant, an amused peasant onlooker peering over a wall on the left, the courtier and his servant wearing brightly coloured gilt-edged clothes, on a mottled green and brown rectangular plinth base (front right corner of base broken off and restuck, restoration to courtier's left arm, hand and sword hilt, tip of sword lacking, possibly with peacock lacking from wall on left, minute chipping to edge of base)
4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) high

Exhibited

Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

For the model, see H.D. Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan (Stuttgart, 1997), no. 771. A similar group, formerly in the Emma Budge Collection, was sold in these Rooms on 7th October 1996, lot 321, and another from the Sir Bernard Eckstein Collection was sold by Sotheby's on 30th May 1949, lot 112. Another satirical group, akin to the present lot, depicting a lady with a ludicrously high coiffure (modelled seated at her toilet table with a man on a step-ladder attending to her hair) was sold in the same (1949) sale, lot 111.

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