Lot Essay
Cf. Siegfried Ducret, Die Zürcher Porzellanmanufaktur (Zürich, 1958), Vol. II, p. 242, pl. 441 and p. 243, pl. 442 for a plate painted with the same subject.
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CIRCA 1780, BLUE Z MARK
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A ZÜRICH FIGURE OF A SPORTSMAN AND A HOUND
CIRCA 1780, BLUE Z MARK
The hunter wearing a round green hat, coat and breeches and a flowered waistcoat, guesturing at the hound tugging at the corner of his coat, before a tree-stump on an oval mound base moulded and applied with a branch and leaves (chipping to right index finger, brim of hat, ribbon, hound's tail and supports on underside of base, tree cracked with two associated chips)
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high
CIRCA 1780, BLUE Z MARK
The hunter wearing a round green hat, coat and breeches and a flowered waistcoat, guesturing at the hound tugging at the corner of his coat, before a tree-stump on an oval mound base moulded and applied with a branch and leaves (chipping to right index finger, brim of hat, ribbon, hound's tail and supports on underside of base, tree cracked with two associated chips)
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high
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