A rare large Ludwigsburg group of the Finding of Moses, circa 1775

Modelled by J.H. Schmidt, with four semi-nude ladies clothed in classical draperies, one kneeling and holding a baby, another lying on the ground and leaning on a pot spilling water emblematic of the Nile, the other two flanking a tree on rockwork at the back, one standing and the other seated, on a grassy and rockwork base, 33.2cm high, incised W(?)5 / AF 1 AM (minor chips)

Provenance:
Ernst Blumka (1886-1969), Vienna (to 1938) and London;
Thence by descent to the Eveline Newgas Collection, London

Only two other examples are recorded in the literature: D. Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan (1997), no. 28 (without the tree), and another in L. Balet, Ludwigsburger Porzellan (Figurenplastik), Vol.I (1911), no. 398.