View full screen - View 1 of Lot 735. A Ludwigsburg porcelain figure group of a shepherd and shepherdess and a pair of Ludwigsburg figures of a shepherd and shepherdess playing instruments, circa 1765.

A Ludwigsburg porcelain figure group of a shepherd and shepherdess and a pair of Ludwigsburg figures of a shepherd and shepherdess playing instruments, circa 1765

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Description

the group modelled by J.C. Haselmeyer, with a couple seated by a gnarled tree, she holding a lute or guitar, he with bagpipes at his side, flanked by a lamb and a hound, the pair of figures modelled by Johann Christian Frierich Beyer, each seated on a rockwork base, she playing a guitar with a lamb at her feet, he playing a flute, with a hound at his feet, each upon small mound bases applied with mosses, interlaced CC monogram marks in underglaze-blue


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Height of figure group 22.3 cm; 8 ¾ in

The group:

Antiquitäten Metz, 11 May 2013, lot 62;

Acquired at the above sale.

An example of the group is illustrated by Hans Dieter Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan, Fayence, Steingut, Kacheln, Fliesen, Stuttgart, 1997, p. 510, no. 68 and attributed to the modeller Johann Christoph Haselmeyer on p. 393. See Flach, ibid., p. 546, no. 340 (flute player) and p. 365, no. 512 (guitar player), attributed to the modeller Johann Christian Frierich Beyer on p. 388.