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A Nymphenburg porcelain two-part figure group of a shepherd and shepherdess, circa 1765-75

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2,000 - 3,000 EUR

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Description

probably modelled by P. Seefried, seated facing on overlapping rockwork bases with grassy tufts, the shepherd holding a crook and with a recumbent goat to his right, his companion holding a sheep, the male figure with impressed shield mark, incised //


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Height 17.5 cm; 6 ⅞ in

The Levi Collection;

The Property of a Gentleman, sold, Christie's, London, 3 July 1956, lot 93 (Levi Collection);

The Collections of Hanns and Elisabeth Weinberg and The Antique Porcelain Company of New York, sold, Sotheby's, New York, 11 November 2006, lot 256;

Acquired at the above sale.


An example of this model in the white in the Bäuml Collection, Munich, is illustrated in Alfred Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan Sammlung Bäuml, Stuttgart, 1997, p. 80, cat. no. 128, which the author attributes it to Peter Seefried, and lists other known examples in public and private collections.