Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A LUDWIGSBURG FIGURE OF A MAIDSERVANT
Lot 126

A LUDWIGSBURG FIGURE OF A MAIDSERVANT

CIRCA 1765-70, BLUE INTERLACED C MARK, PRESSNUMMERN .A.32. AND .2.FM., PUCE PAINTER'S MARK H

Closed28 November 2012

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A LUDWIGSBURG FIGURE OF A MAIDSERVANT
CIRCA 1765-70, BLUE INTERLACED C MARK, PRESSNUMMERN .A.32. AND .2.FM., PUCE PAINTER'S MARK H
Modelled by Joseph Nees, standing before a square pillar with a coffee-grinder on top, holding a quatrefoil tray bearing a coffee-pot, milk-jug and a teabowl and saucer, in a mob cap, puce-patterned bodice and puce and gilt-flowered white skirt, on a mottled green mound base (small flat chips to front of jacket, cap and top of coffee-grinder)
5 5/8 in. (14.2 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 December 1994, lot 266.

Specialist note

A similar figure, attributed to Nees, is illustrated by Hans Dieter Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan, Stuttgart, 1997, p. 557, no. 437. For another example (together with her male companion) serving wine, see Leo Balet, Ludwigsburger Porzellan, Stuttgart, 1911, p. 81, nos. 71 and 72.