Lot Essay
Cf. Siegfried Ducret, Die Zürcher Porzellanmanufaktur (Zürich, 1958), Vol. II, p. 130, pl. 216 for the example recorded in the Dr. H. Meyer-Wertemann Collection.
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CIRCA 1770, BLUE Z/.. MARK
Details
A ZÜRICH FIGURE OF AFRICA FROM A SET OF THE FOUR CONTINENTS
CIRCA 1770, BLUE Z/.. MARK
Probably modelled by Joseph Nees, standing with her right hand resting on a stack of bales, wearing a plumed white and gilt turban, a fur-lined pale-yellow coat over a pink dress with gilt stripes and puce pattern, on a grassy rocky mound on a shallow oval plinth base (chipping and associated old restoration to her left thumb and index finger, some small areas of flaking to enamels on mound)
6¾ in. (17.2 cm.) high
CIRCA 1770, BLUE Z/.. MARK
Probably modelled by Joseph Nees, standing with her right hand resting on a stack of bales, wearing a plumed white and gilt turban, a fur-lined pale-yellow coat over a pink dress with gilt stripes and puce pattern, on a grassy rocky mound on a shallow oval plinth base (chipping and associated old restoration to her left thumb and index finger, some small areas of flaking to enamels on mound)
6¾ in. (17.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, sale Sotheby's, London, 10th October 1961, lot 590
Alfred Schwarzenbach Collection, sale Sotheby's, Zürich, 7th May 1974, lot 79.
Alfred Schwarzenbach Collection, sale Sotheby's, Zürich, 7th May 1974, lot 79.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.