FOUR FIGURES FROM A SERIES OF 15 DUTCH PEASANTS

Description:

Closter Veilsdorf, circa 1770
H. 9,5-10 cm
Peasant with jug, 3 peasants playing cards, model by Ludwig Daniel Heyd, without marks. Some restorations and min. chips.
Jan Ahlers Collection
Inventory of moulds June 1769, Heyd, Inspired by pictures by David Teniers the Younger. A similar series of ‘Seated Men’ was also produced in the Limbach manufactory, see Graul-Kurzwelly 1909, pl. 41, nos. 6 and 7. Literature: Sattler 1993, no. 25-28