Lot Essay
The unmarked example in the Hoffmann Collection Riehe is illustrated in S. Ducret, die Zuercher Porzellanmanufaktur (Zürich, 1958), fig. 256.
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CIRCA 1770, UNDERGLAZE BLUE Z MARK, INCISED K
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A Zurich group of Europa and the Bull
CIRCA 1770, UNDERGLAZE BLUE Z MARK, INCISED K
Europa in a blue-edged white dress, modelled garlanding the bull with flowers, a youth in a white shirt, grey-green breeches and black shoes at her side and with two scantilly-draped putti, one with a basket of flowers, at their feet, on an oval mound base (restoration and minor damages)
6¼ in. (16 cm.) high
CIRCA 1770, UNDERGLAZE BLUE Z MARK, INCISED K
Europa in a blue-edged white dress, modelled garlanding the bull with flowers, a youth in a white shirt, grey-green breeches and black shoes at her side and with two scantilly-draped putti, one with a basket of flowers, at their feet, on an oval mound base (restoration and minor damages)
6¼ in. (16 cm.) high
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