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Lot 178

A Frankenthal figure of a coal seller, circa 1768

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

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A Frankenthal figure of a coal seller, circa 1768

Modelled by Carl Gottlieb Lück, wearing a black hat, white coat with gilt buttons and yellow breeches, carrying a large sack of coal on his back and supporting a deep basket with coal with his left hand, the grassy base moulded with gilt-edged rocailles and applied with foliage, 25.5cm high crowned CT monogram and VIII in underglaze-blue (one handle of basket lacking)

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

The figure is after the print 'Charbon Charbon' by S.F. Ravenet (1706-1774) from the 'Cris de Paris' series after F. Boucher. An unpainted example, together with the source print, is illustrated in B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Frankenthaler Porzellan - Die Plastik (2008), no.45, pp.508-509.

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