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A Frankenthal group of Savoyard Musicians circa 1778
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description
- crowned CT mongram and 78 in underglaze-blue
- 23.5cm., 9 1/4 in.
modelled by Konrad Link, the standing violin player wearing a large black hat with a pipe stuck in the front, a puce cape, white shirt, yellow apron and green breeches, the bagpipe-player seated on an upturned barrel, wearing a soft hat with an iron-red feather, a shirt with blue and iron-red stripes and purple flowerheads and puce breeches, between them a boy playing the triangle and a seated girl drinking from a tankard, the grassy base edged with scrollwork heightened in gilding
Provenance
The Collection of the Margraves and Grand Dukes of Baden, Grand Ducal Residence, Karlsruhe, and (from 1918), Neues Schloß, Baden-Baden;
sold Sotheby's Baden-Baden, 7th October 1995, lot 1405
sold Sotheby's Baden-Baden, 7th October 1995, lot 1405
Exhibited
1960-c.1990, Zähringer Museum, Neues Schloß, Baden-Baden
Literature
K.Koelitz, Beschreibendes Inventar der Allerhöchsten Privatsammlung kunstgewerblicher Gegenstände, Aufgestellt in den Räumen des ehemaligen Großherzoglichen Naturalienkabinets, unpublished manuscript, Karlsruhe 1883;
(Galerieinspektor) Richter, Inventar des Zähringer Museums, Aufgestellt in den Räumen des Kavalierbaus des Großherzoglichen Schloßes in Baden-Baden, unpublished manuscript, Baden-Baden 1919, no.2725
(Galerieinspektor) Richter, Inventar des Zähringer Museums, Aufgestellt in den Räumen des Kavalierbaus des Großherzoglichen Schloßes in Baden-Baden, unpublished manuscript, Baden-Baden 1919, no.2725
Catalogue Note
Prior to the abidication of Grand Duke Friedrich II of Baden in 1918, this group formed part of the Porcelain Cabinet in the western Corps de Logis, in the apartments of Grand Duchess Luise of Baden, Princess of Prussia (1838-1923) in the Grand Ducal Residence, Karlsruhe.
A similar group is illustrated by F.H. Hofmann, Frankenthaler Porzellan, vol.I, pl.91, no.408.