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A rare pair of Fulda figures of a man and woman feeding animals, circa 1770-75
3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
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A rare pair of Fulda figures of a man and woman feeding animals, circa 1770-75
Modelled by Georg Ludwig Bartholomae, the woman feeding chickens, wearing a grey-chequered bodice and striped skirt with puce floral hem, holding grain gathered in her green apron, the man standing by a dog kennel with a dog eating from a bowl and a cat watching, his left hand raised, wearing a puce-striped jacket reserved with flowers and green, patterned breeches, the base applied with leaves, 16.5cm and 15.3cm high, cross marks in underglaze-blue, black-painted inventory numbers H-K2, applied paper collectors' labels inscribed in ink 'No. 6.' (twice) and '321' and '322' (two tiny chips to ribbons on lady's shoulder and neck) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Heinrich Rothberger Collection, Vienna;
Sold by Hans W. Lange, Berlin, 18-19 November 1938, lot 696;
Friedrich-Karl-August and Getrud-Agathe Hülsmann, Hamburg;
Museum Huelsmann, Bielefeld (bequest of the above in 1984);
Restituted to Heinrich Rothberger's niece, Mrs Bertha Gutmann, in 2017;
Thence by descent
Literature:
C. Fritzsche/G.K. Stasch, Hochfürstlich Fuldische Porzellainmanufaktur 1764-1789 (1994), p. 212, no. 007-10 and 008-10
These figures are mentioned in a factory inventory of 1 July 1775: 'Figuren so Hund und Hüner füttern' [figures feeding a dog and chickens] as well as in a price-list of 1786 quoted by Fritzsche/Stasch, p.67; see also nos. 31 and 32 for similar figures in the Vonderau-Museum, Fulda, and a list of further recorded examples.