A Strasbourg porcelain figure of a lady spinning - image-1

Lot 1686 Dα

A Strasbourg porcelain figure of a lady spinning

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 1.300 € - 1.500 €
Result: 1.625 € (incl. premium)

A Strasbourg porcelain figure of a lady spinning

Unglazed base with incised mark conjoined IH:1. Restorations to the wool and spinning wheel. H 14.5 cm.
Modelled by Johann Wilhelm Lanz 1756/57, produced around 1758.

Literature

Cf. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Frankenthaler Porzellan. Die Plastik, vol. I, Munich 2008, no. 99, for a slightly earlier version from 1756/57 in the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum.
Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky lists a further example marked JH in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, inv. no. 54.686.