A Frankenthal porcelain group, the flute lesson - image-1
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Lot 894 Dα

A Frankenthal porcelain group, the flute lesson

Auction 1152 - overview Cologne
29.05.2020, 14:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 9.000 € - 10.000 €
Result: 11.250 € (incl. premium)
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A Frankenthal porcelain group, the flute lesson

Two-figure group with a shepherd and shepherdess on a foliate rocaille base. The elegantly dressed cavalier sits on a rocaille pedestal behind the shepherdess on her grassy knoll as they play the flute together. With an upturned basket of flowers beside the pedestal and a goat lying on the ground beside the lady. Blue conjoined CT mark beneath an electoral crown. Restored, several firing cracks to the base. H 22.3, W 20 cm.
Around 1762/65, modelled by Johann Friedrich Lück, 1758.

Johann Friedrich Lück based the composition of this shepherd couple making music on the engraving “L'agréable leçon” by René Gaillard (around 1720 - 1770), which in turn was based on a painting by François Boucher (1703 - 1770). Gaillard's engraving was included in a four-volume book of engravings published in Paris in 1758 based on paintings by Boucher for which he in turn was inspired by Charles-Simon Favart's (1710 - 1792) ballet "La Valleé de Montmorency ou Les amours villageois".

Literature

Cf. the large group in a rocaille niche in: Beaucamp-Markowsky, Frankenthaler Porzellan, Munich 2008, vol. 2, cat. no. 150.