A Pair of Frankenthal Sweatmeat Figures Emblematic of Summer and Autumn and a Pair of Frankenthal Spice Boats, Circa 1760-70 | Ein Paar Frankenthal Konfekt-Figuren, allegorisch für den Sommer und den Herbst, und ein Paar Frankenthal Gewürzboote, um 1760-70
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Lot Closed
March 6, 03:35 PM GMT
Estimate
2,600 - 4,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
the sweatmeats modelled by Johann Friedrich Lück, each with a male or female figure seated beside a rocaille scroll-moulded bowl, she holding ears of wheat, he holding bunches of grapes, on pierced scroll-moulded bases heightened in puce and gilding; the spice boats probably modelled by Johann Friedrich Lück, after Meissen models, with a male or female figure at the helm, each holding a rudder issuing from a dolphin's mouth, crowned CT monogram marks in underglaze-blue and incised marks to sweatmeats, iron-red enamel H to one, crowned CT monogram in blue to one spiceboat
Height of sweatmeats 6 in.
15.3 cm.
Length of spice boats 5 1/8 in.
13 cm.
Horst Reber, Eine Rheinische Porzellan-Sammlung, Darmstadt, 2006, vol. II, pp. 130-131 (the salts) and 134 (the spice boats)
The corresponding sweatmeat figures, emblematic of Spring and Winter from the set of the Seasons, are illustrated by Friedrich Hoffmann, Frankenthal Porzellan, vol. II, Munich, 1911, taf. 167, nos. 649, 650.
Another pair of, seemingly rare, spice boats was sold at Christie's London, 23 March, 1983, lot 84.