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Modelled by J.F. Lück, as a lady and a gentleman, each standing with arms outstretched, in blue-edged flowered clothes, on scroll-moulded gilt-edged bases
The gentleman: 812 in. (21.7 cm.) high
The lady: 9 in. (23.5 cm.) high
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See Friedrich Hofmann, Frankenthaler Porzellan, Munich, 1911, pl. 58, no. 259 (for the male dancer) and pl. 59, no. 262 (for the female dancer). Both figures were modelled by Johann Friedrich Lück (1727-1797), a talented sculptor who worked at Frankenthal between 1758 and 1764, having previously worked as a model-maker at Meissen and Höchst. The male dancer was part of a table centrepiece (surtout) and paired with the female ballet dancer, identified as Mlle Camargo or La Camargo. Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo (1710-1770) was a celebrated ballerina in the Paris Opera Ballet. She was depicted dancing in a painting by Nicolas Lancret, Le Camargo Dancing, 1730, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, museum no. 1937.1.89. A Frankenthal example of the male dancer is in the British Museum, London, museum no. 1923,0314.92.CR.

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