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Group of Peasant Lovers
German
about 1750–53
Medium/Technique
Hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Kiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection. Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession Number2006.1073
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionThe buxom young girl wearing a white mob-cap, blue skirt and bodice, black scarf and flowered white apron standing with a basket of grapes, apples and pears held beneath her right arm and resting on her hip, clasping a single apple in her left hand and smiling sideways at the young man standing beside her with his right arm round her shoulders, with long straggly hair under his black hat, wearing a puce coat, white shirt and pink trousers, on tree trunk supports, the mound base applied with leaves and flowers.
Marks
Painter's mark IZ in puce for Johannes Zeschinger.
ProvenanceAnonymous. June 27, 1961, sale, Sotheby & Co., London, lot 185. Kiyi and Edward M. Pflueger, New York