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Lot 844 Dα

A Frankenthal porcelain group "The Arts on Mount Parnassus"

Auction 1159 - overview Cologne
13.11.2020, 09:30 - Decorative Arts incl. the Renate and Tono Dreßen Collection
Estimate: 5.000 € - 7.000 €
Result: 6.500 € (incl. premium)

A Frankenthal porcelain group "The Arts on Mount Parnassus"

Naturalistically painted pyramidal group depicting six putti as allegories of music, painting, sculpture, architecture, astronomy - above with a telescope - and geometry - below with a compass and a globe. Blue conjoined CT mark with electoral crown above 77 in underglaze blue. Restored, minor firing cracks to the interior, one large filled crack in the base. H 36.5 cm.
1777, this model by Franz Conrad Linck, c. 1765.

Literature

Cf. the large group in: Beaucamp-Markowsky, Frankenthaler Porzellan, Munich 2008, vol. 2, no. 240, also with a list of further examples of this model (p. 434).