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A RARE LUDWIGSBURG FIGURE OF A COCKATOO CIRCA 1765 |:
$14000.00
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Collection of Otto and Magdalena Blohm, Hamburg
The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973EXHIBITEDLITERATURERobert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as collected by Otto Blohm, New York, 1953, pl. 77, cat. nos. 287 - 8, leftCATALOGUE NOTEA similar cockatoo figure and a pair, each with a purple crest, are illustrated in Hans Christ, Ludwigsburger Porzellanfiguren, pl. 31, and in Leo Ballet, Ludwigsburger Porzellan, cat. nos 97 and 98, respectively, where both authors catalogue the figures as modelled by Johann Jacob Louis. Robert Schmidt, however, disputes this attribution in Early European Porcelain as collected by Otto Blohm, pp. 193 and 194, where he refers to the studies done by Dr. Hans Heinz Josten's on Ludwigsburg modellers and states that "Josten considers the charming pair of cockatoos to be unquestionably the work of (Wilhelm) Beyer (about 1765), in spite of the incised L which Leo Balet takes to stand for Johann Jakob Louis; the latter, however, was only a 'Poussier' (repairer), not a modeller or sculptor."
A cuckatoo figure with a purple crest, from the collection of Mrs. Charles E. Dunlap, was sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet, December 3, 1975, lot 274 (sold for $26,000).SUGGESTED LOTSDiscover more upcoming
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