P109 - TWO FRANKENTHAL FIGURE GROUPS EMBLEMATIC OF SUMMER AND WINTER

 

One dated 1779, blue crowned initials marks, modeled by K.G. Lück

From a set of the Four Seasons, modeled standing, Summer with both figures holding wheat; Winter with the male figure holding a muff, the female a brazier

(Summer with restoration to the base)

(Winter broken through base and restored, brazier restored, man’s arm restored)

5 ¾ in. (14.6 cm) high (2)

 

LITERATURE

Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, p. 193, plate 103, fig. 353 and 355.