A Strasbourg or Frankenthal porcelain model of a pug-dog, c.1755, incised P·H mark and foliate fl...

A Strasbourg or Frankenthal porcelain model of a pug-dog, c.1755, incised P·H mark and foliate flourish mark, probably modelled by Johann Wilhelm Lanz, in a recumbent pose, with a black face and brown markings to its back, on a shaped oval grassy mound base, 9.8cm wideProvenance: The Robert G. Vater Collection of European Ceramics.Note: The PH mark incised on the underside of this model refers to Paul-Antoine Hannong, who in 1755 was forced to close his porcelain manufactory at Strasbourg because of the monopolies granted by the French King. Hannong moved the manufactory and set up a new one at Frankenthal under the protection of the Elector Palatine, Karl Theodor. Unfinished pieces were brought to Frankenthal, and the modeller Lanz also moved to Frankenthal from Strasbourg. For a very similar model of a recumbent pug (facing in the opposite direction from the present lot) in the Museen der Stadt Bamberg, see C. Dumortier and P. Habets (Eds.), The T&T Collection, Porcelain Pugs, A Passion, 2019, p. 65, fig. 24, where it is attributed to Frankenthal.Photographs: © Christie's ImagesCondition Report: Overall in good order. 1cm. wide flat chip to the side of the mound base, behind the pugs front right paw (so not visible when model viewed from the front). Short firing cracks to front of base and pugs belly. Small flat chip to underside edge of base, and a few further tiny chips scattered around the edge of the base. Some very, very slight wear to enamels on pugs head.