Bonhams 1793 : A rare Frankenthal arbour group of lovers emblematic of Autumn, circa 1756

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7 Dec 2011 10:30 GMT London, New Bond Street
Fine European Ceramics
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A rare Frankenthal arbour group of lovers emblematic of Autumn, circa 1756

Modelled by J.W. Lanz, as a couple seated in an arbour, he pouring wine into a glass, the gentleman wearing a purple suit with a 'mosaic' pattern and a white soft hat, the lady wearing a pale yellow dress decorated with blue flower sprigs, a table with a basket of grapes in front of them, the elaborate pierced green arbour edged with purple- and gilt-edges scrollwork and festooned across the top with grapes, 27.5cm high, rampant lion mark in underglaze-blue, impressed PH, incised 2N(reversed)7 (his left foot restored, his right hand restuck at the wrist, minor chips and restoration to extremities)

Estimate:

£20,000 - 25,000
€24,000 - 30,000
US$ 30,000 - 38,000

Footnotes

Provenance:
Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, Basel;
Private Collection, Switzerland

Literature:
S. Ducret, Porzellan der europäischen Manufakturen (1971), p. 71, ill. 43;
E. Pauls-Eisenbeiss 1972, vol. II, p. 116f.

Modelled by Lanz in 1756-57, based on the engraving 'Le Dejeuné, ou l"alliance de l'Amour et du Vin' by the Paris engraver and publisher, François Jouillain (1697-1778), published in 1751 after the 1744 painting by Jean-Marc Nattier, now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. For a discussion of the group, see B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Frankenthaler Porzellan (2008), I, no. 58. According to the Journal de Commerce of July 1766, the group 'Love inspired by Wine' cost 96 livres with the arbour and 66 livres without (quoted by Pauls-Eisenbeiss, p. 116).