CIRCA 1760-62, TRACES OF BLUE MARK AT BACK OF BASE, UNDERSIDE INCISED W AND A·F·3·TF N W (?) ·4, PALE-BROWN JB (?) MONOGRAM

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A LUDWIGSBURG JAGDGRUPPE
CIRCA 1760-62, TRACES OF BLUE MARK AT BACK OF BASE, UNDERSIDE INCISED W AND A·F·3·TF N W (?) ·4, PALE-BROWN JB (?) MONOGRAM
Modelled by J.C.W. Beyer, with a seated huntswoman wearing a green hunting cap, a white jacket with a puce collar and cuffs, a green apron and white skirt with clustered blue dots, her arms around a playful hunting-hound, her standing companion in a white hunting jacket with a gilt and red collar and cuffs, purple breeches and black riding boots, bending to pat the dog, another recumbent dog at his feet, his musket and satchel resting against the rococo arbour behind them, the arbour formed as a column and support surmounted by an arched scroll connected to a tree, a young satyr seated in its branches playing the pan-pipes, on a circular grassy mound base (section at left of base broken off and restuck with associated restoration to huntsman's boots, restored chips to foliage and hats, slight chipping to ribbons, chip and slight chipping to edge of base)
11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm.) high

Exhibited

Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.

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Lot Essay

For a similar model, see Hans D. Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan (Stuttgart, 1997), p. 499, no. 4. For a white example on a rectangular base without the recumbent dog, see Leo Balet, Ludwigsburger Porzellan (Stuttgart, 1911), Vol. I, p. 67, no. 40. For a discussion of groups of this type, see Reinhard Jansen, 'Die Macht einer Signatur oder Zur Zuschreibung einer Ludwigsburger Schäfergruppe' Keramos, No. 108, April 1985.

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