Lot 111
111
A PAIR OF HÖCHST DOUBLE SWEETMEAT DISHES formed as a girl with a bird and a youth with a bouquet seated between baskets in pink hat and flowered dress and turquoise hat and pink suit with elaborate green and puce waistcoat on grassy rockwork bases (one broken throught base and basket and repaired, three handles lacking, chips to extremities), circa 1765

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A PAIR OF HÖCHST DOUBLE SWEETMEAT DISHES formed as a girl with a bird and a youth with a bouquet seated between baskets in pink hat and flowered dress and turquoise hat and pink suit with elaborate green and puce waistcoat on grassy rockwork bases (one broken throught base and basket and repaired, three handles lacking, chips to extremities), circa 1765
17.5cm. wide (2)

Lot Essay

The model was first produced in 1760, the models with the grasswork were introduced in about 1765

Cf. Reber, op. cit., p. 61 for an example of the female figure; a similar pair was sold by Christie's London, on 30 November 1987, lot 35

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