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Lot 159

A Frankenthal group of singers, circa 1785

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

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A Frankenthal group of singers, circa 1785

Modelled by Johann Peter Melchior, with the conductor standing in the middle holding a music score in his left hand and a rolled score in the right, surrounded by two seated adults and three children, all singing from musical scores, on a grassy rockwork base, 25cm high, crowned CT monogram and 85 in underglaze-blue, incised mark A.C No2 (for Adam Cleer) (some restoration)

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An unpainted example of this group is in the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, see B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Frankenthaler Porzellan, vol. 1 (2008), no. 312.

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