FIGURE OF A “RUSSIAN PEDDLER” Fürstenberg, circa 1772. Model by Anton Carl Luplau.
FIGURE OF A “RUSSIAN PEDDLER”
Fürstenberg, circa 1772. Model by Anton Carl Luplau.
Porcelain. Modelled after an engraving by Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (1734–1781), as a bearded man balancing a basket of bottles on his head, wearing a fur-lined coat and mittens over purple breeches and lace-up shoes. On a flat base with a tree stump. Underglaze-blue "F" mark on the reverse of the base, incised mark "223 B".
H 19.8 cm.
Restored.
Provenance:
- Siegfried Ducret Collection, Zurich.
- Acquired by inheritance in 1972 and added to the Peter Ducret Collection, Kilchberg.
Literature:
- Siegfried Ducret: Fürstenberger Porzellan, 1965, Vol. III, p. 108, figs. 169, 170 (engraving).
- Siegfried Ducret: Porzellan des 18. Jh., pp. 62 and 54 (engraving).
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FIGURE OF A “RUSSIAN PEDDLER”
Fürstenberg, circa 1772. Model by Anton Carl Luplau.
Porcelain. Modelled after an engraving by Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (1734–1781), as a bearded man balancing a basket of bottles on his head, wearing a fur-lined coat and mittens over purple breeches and lace-up shoes. On a flat base with a tree stump. Underglaze-blue "F" mark on the reverse of the base, incised mark "223 B".
H 19.8 cm.
Restored.
Provenance:
- Siegfried Ducret Collection, Zurich.
- Acquired by inheritance in 1972 and added to the Peter Ducret Collection, Kilchberg.
Literature:
- Siegfried Ducret: Fürstenberger Porzellan, 1965, Vol. III, p. 108, figs. 169, 170 (engraving).
- Siegfried Ducret: Porzellan des 18. Jh., pp. 62 and 54 (engraving).
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