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Lot 160

A Frankenthal arbour group of lovers, circa 1765

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

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A Frankenthal arbour group of lovers, circa 1765

Modelled by Johann Friedrich Lück, seated below a pierced, scrollwork arbour, the gentleman offering the lady a posy, a flower basket at their feet and a vase on a pedestal to one side, the base modelled with gilt- and purple-edged scrollwork, 28cm high, crowned CT monogram in underglaze-blue (two sections of the arbour and vase made-up replacements, minor damage)

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Provenance:
The Collections of the Margraves and Grand Dukes of Baden, sold by Sotheby's Baden-Baden, 7 October 1995, lot 1384

Literature:
Inventory of the Zähringer Museum (private property of the Grand Ducal House of Baden), Neues Schloß, Baden-Baden, by the Galerieinspektor Richter (unpublished mss., 1919), no. 2727

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