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A Ludwigsburg large rococo pastoral group
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A Ludwigsburg large rococo pastoral group

CIRCA 1765

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A Ludwigsburg large rococo pastoral group
Circa 1765
Finely modelled by Johann Jakob Mayer, with a shepherd playing the bagpipes for a shepherdess before a romantic ruin, two sheep lying at their feet, Cupid with his quiver of arrows and bow looking down from a rocaille arch supported by a robust Ionic column garlanded with vine and a rustic column of mossy rocks surmounted by an urn, a large dolphin fountain issuing water into a shell basin at one side, a goat on the steps beneath the arch eating vine leaves from the column, on a rockwork and grassy mound base applied with foliage (Cupid's left wing restuck, Cupid's bow, small element from basin and element from front of base lacking, chipping to bagpipes and leaves of vase, minute chipping to foliage and ribbons)
13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

For another example see H.D. Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan (Stuttgart, 1997), p. 499, no. 3 and also illustrated on the dust-jacket. Also see the example in the Pauls Collection, illustrated by Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century (London, 1972), Vol. II, pp 264-265.

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