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Lot 182

A Limbach group of bird's nesters, circa 1775

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

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A Limbach group of bird's nesters, circa 1775

The young man standing on a tree with a nest handing a bird to a woman with two more birds gathered in her apron, his hat on the leafy base, 19.4cm high (minor damage)

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

A similar model - based on a larger Volkstedt group - is illustrated by C. Fritzsche, Thüringer Porzellanfiguren des 18. Jahrhunderts, in Mitteilungsblatt der Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz, 116/117 (2003), p. 113f.

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