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Lot 152

A Strasbourg porcelain group emblematic of Spring, circa 1750-54

6 December 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£800 - £1,200

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A Strasbourg porcelain group emblematic of Spring, circa 1750-54

Modelled by Johann Wilhelm Lanz with a seated lady leaning on rockwork and holding a basket of flowers, a man standing beside her playing the bagpipes, a leafy tree behind him, on a grassy base applied with leaves and flowers, 20.3cm high (restored through base)

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The model is from a series of the four seasons, which Lanz originally modelled in Strasbourg and then took with him to Frankenthal. The groups are based on prints by Joseph Wagner after Jacopo Amigoni - the present lot after the print "Spring".
Frankenthal versions of the groups emblematic of "Autumn" and "Summer" are illustrated in B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Frankenthaler Porzellan, vol. I (2008), nos. 53-54.

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