A Holics centrepiece

CIRCA 1770, BLACK HH MARK

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A Holics centrepiece
Circa 1770, black HH mark
Modelled as a naked bearded triton with a green, yellow and red fishes tail and red flippers supporting a pierced quatrefoil shallow bowl with puce, blue, yellow and red stripes edged with puce and blue scrolls and moulded yellow foliage on a blue, puce and yellow shell-moulded base
13 in. (35 cm.) wide

Sale room notice

There is some restoration to the extremities and around the waist of the Triton.

Lot Essay

Cf. Akos Kiss, Ungarische Barock-Fayencen, aus Holics und Tata, fig. 26, Karl Csanyi, Geschichte der Ungarischen Keramik, p. 11A, Jana Kybalora, Holicska Fajans, no. 17, and the similar example sold by Christie's Geneva on 22 April 1970, lot 215.

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