Property of Prinz Maximilian zu Fürstenberg from Schloss Werenwag (lots 172-203)

A HÖCHST GROUP OF TWO CHILDREN IN TURKISH DRESS ('ALS TÜRKEN MASKIERTE KINDER') AND A FRANKENTHAL FIGURE OF A TRADESMAN

CIRCA 1770, THE FIRST WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE CROWNED WHEEL MARK, INCISED J. R MARK, THE SECOND WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE LION RAMPANT MARK, IMPRESSED H/I MARK

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A HÖCHST GROUP OF TWO CHILDREN IN TURKISH DRESS ('ALS TÜRKEN MASKIERTE KINDER') AND A FRANKENTHAL FIGURE OF A TRADESMAN
CIRCA 1770, THE FIRST WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE CROWNED WHEEL MARK, INCISED J. R MARK, THE SECOND WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE LION RAMPANT MARK, IMPRESSED H/I MARK
The Höchst group modelled by Johann Peter Melchior as a girl and boy in costume with their arms around one another and sharing a drink from a flask between them, each wearing pink and turquoise costume, on a grassy rocky mound base, slight chipping; the Frankenthal tradesman modelled standing holding a tied bundle over his right shoulder, on a circular puce and gilt rococo scroll-moulded base, stick lacking in right hand, knapsack cracked and restored, left hand cracked and restored, thumb lacking, flaked retouching to black enamel, slight chipping to footrim
The first 7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) high; the second 5¾ in. (14.5 cm.) high (2)

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A similar example of the Höchst group is illustrated by Kurt Röder and Michel Oppenheim, Das Höchster Porzellan, Mainz, 1930, pl. 71h, no. 381, see also the example offered in these Rooms on 8 June 2002, lot 317.

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