CIRCA 1770, BLUE CROSS MARK

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A FULDA FIGURE OF A LADY
CIRCA 1770, BLUE CROSS MARK
Modelled with her left arm raised, standing on a puce scroll-edged mound base (left arm restuck at elbow, small restored chip to edge of cloak, minor chipping)
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For an illustration of this model together with her gallant companion see Christoph Fritzsche, Gregor Karl Stasch and Ernst Kramer, Hochfürstlich Fuldische Porzellainmanufaktur 1764-1798, Exhibition Catalogue, Fulda, 1994, p. 94, no. 59. A Fulda figure from the Meinertzhagen Collection, of the same model as the present lot but holding a miniature in her left hand, was sold (together with her gentleman companion) in these Rooms on 3 March 1986, lot 39.

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