A Frankenthal Group of 'The Good Mother', Circa 1775 | Eine Frankenthal Gruppe der "Guten Mutter", um 1775
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Description
modelled by Konrad Gottlieb Lück, with a nursing baby on her lap, a sleeping child in a chair to one side, a brazier of warming porridge at his feet, and a boy playing a pipe standing beside her, on a scroll-moulded grassy base, crowned CT monogram mark in underglaze-blue
Height 8 1/4 in.
21 cm.
Horst Reber, Eine Rheinische Porzellan-Sammlung, Darmstadt, 2006, vol. II, p. 132
This model was first created by Lück around 1765-66 and is derived from an engraving La mère de familie or Die gute Mutter by Laurent Cars, after the painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. For a similar model and the engraved source see Siegfried Ducret, Keramik und Graphik des 18 Jahrhunderts, Braunschweig, 1973, p. 215, nos. 420 and 422, and Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Frankenthaler Porzellan: Die Plastik, vol. I, Munich, 2008, no. 273.