CIRCA 1765, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND DOT MARKS

Two similar figures from a set of the Senses mounted with Louis XV ormolu mounts as candelabra were sold in these Rooms on 2 December 1998, lot 9. The hand-biting lobster on the figure of Touch recalls the engraving 'Tactus' by Gottfried Bernhard Goz (d. 1774), which portrays a pastoral scene with lovers watching as a crayfish bites Harlequin of the Italian Comedy, see Dr. P. Jessen, Rococo Engravings, London, 1922, fig. 116. A related figure of Taste, with the monkey at the base of the pedestal, was sold in these Rooms on 8 July 2002, lot 299. For a different set of the Five Senses in the Pauls Collection, Switzerland, modelled by Friedrich Elias Meyer on high rococo mound bases, see Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century, London, 1972, Vol. I, pp. 146-147.