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Lot 176

A rare Limbach figure of a wine harvester allegorical of "Autumn", circa 1775

14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A rare Limbach figure of a wine harvester allegorical of "Autumn", circa 1775

Holding grapes in both hands and standing by fruiting vines on a tree-stump, wearing a black hat, green jacket, and ochre-striped yellow waistcoat and breeches, 18.2cm high (right arm restuck at shoulder, both hands restored)

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Provenance:
British Private Collection, assembled in the 1950s and 1960s

Only two other examples of this figure are recorded; see C. Fritzsche, Thüringer Porzellanfiguren des 18. Jahrhunderts, in Mitteilungsblatt der Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz, 116/117 (2003), p. 24f.

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