A Ludwigsburg figure of a Chinese woman c.1767

A Ludwigsburg figure of a Chinese woman c.1767, modelled by Joseph Weinmüller, seated on a tasselled patterned cushion, her left foot resting on a shallower green cushion, her right hand raised, wearing a cap applied with delicate beads, a blue-sprigged dress and a pink tunic, decorator's mark in iron red, good restoration to her right foot, 18cm high.

Cf. Dr Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century, Vol II, p 248. See also Hans Dieter Flach, Ludwigsburger porzellan, fig. 515.

Provenance: the Luise Hofmann Collection.