A ZÜRICH FIGURE OF A SPORTSWOMAN WITH TWO GREYHOUNDS modelled by Johann Jakob Spengler, in green habit with sepia and gilt flowers and black shoes, holding a bird and with a rifle slung over her shoulder, standing before a tree flanked by two greyhounds on a mound base (one hound a restored replacement, restoration to tree and tail of the other hound), blue Z mark, circa 1773

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A ZÜRICH FIGURE OF A SPORTSWOMAN WITH TWO GREYHOUNDS modelled by Johann Jakob Spengler, in green habit with sepia and gilt flowers and black shoes, holding a bird and with a rifle slung over her shoulder, standing before a tree flanked by two greyhounds on a mound base (one hound a restored replacement, restoration to tree and tail of the other hound), blue Z mark, circa 1773
16cm. high

Literature

Seigfried Ducret, German Porcelain and Faience, p. 319, no. 127

Lot Essay

Johann Jakob Spengler, well known for the models he made at the Derby factory, worked for a short time at Zürich

Cf. Siegfried Ducret, op. cit., vol. II, p. 188, fig. 315 for the example in the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zürich

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