Lot Essay
A similar example is illustrated by Röder, op. cit, fig. 303.
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CIRCA 1770, THE FIRST WITH BLUE CROWNED WHEEL MARK, THE SECOND WITH BLUE WHEEL MARK
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TWO HÖCHST FIGURES OF A SMITH AND A COOPER
CIRCA 1770, THE FIRST WITH BLUE CROWNED WHEEL MARK, THE SECOND WITH BLUE WHEEL MARK
The two youths modelled by J.P. Melchior as a smith and a cooper, the smith in a pale-blue cap, white shirt, puce breeches and leather apron, beating the red-hot tip of a iron rod, the anvil of waisted plinth form, on a jagged base coloured and modelled to simulate paving, the cooper wearing a white cap with a puce border, a flowered turquoise-trimmed waistcoat and puce breeches, chisseling the base of a large up-turned tub, on a shaped grassy mound base (peak of smith's cap restored, cooper with restoration to right side of body and abdomen, minute fritting to edge of bases and minute areas of wear to enamels)
4½ in. (11.6 cm.) and 3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm.) high (2)
CIRCA 1770, THE FIRST WITH BLUE CROWNED WHEEL MARK, THE SECOND WITH BLUE WHEEL MARK
The two youths modelled by J.P. Melchior as a smith and a cooper, the smith in a pale-blue cap, white shirt, puce breeches and leather apron, beating the red-hot tip of a iron rod, the anvil of waisted plinth form, on a jagged base coloured and modelled to simulate paving, the cooper wearing a white cap with a puce border, a flowered turquoise-trimmed waistcoat and puce breeches, chisseling the base of a large up-turned tub, on a shaped grassy mound base (peak of smith's cap restored, cooper with restoration to right side of body and abdomen, minute fritting to edge of bases and minute areas of wear to enamels)
4½ in. (11.6 cm.) and 3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
The smith with Nicolier, Paris.
Special notice
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