Lot 148: - A small German carved sandstone garden bench by Ferdinand Tiezt or Dietz (1708-1777), Würzburg mid 18th century

with a rectangular seat with rounded ends above a scrolled and rocaille seat-rail on concave sided plinth supports carved with lunettes

38cm high, 170cm wide; 1ft.2½in., 5ft.7in.

Schloss Seehof, Bamberg, the summer residence of the First Bishops of Seinsheim
Fischer-Böhler, Munich 1978

THE PROPERTY OF MR & MRS LEHMANN, FRITZLAR, GERMANY, TOGETHER WITH LOTS 112 - 147
Comparative Literature:
Bernard Wolfgang Lindemann, Ferdinand Tietz 1708-1777, Weissenhorn, 1989, page 361, no. 18, for a virtually identical bench by Ferdinand Tietz, reproduced here in fig. 1. For further information on this maker see previous lot.