Lot 667
667
A PAIR OF HÖCHST PORCELAIN WOODCOCK TUREENS AND COVERS
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A PAIR OF HÖCHST PORCELAIN WOODCOCK TUREENS AND COVERS

CIRCA 1750-55, AUBERGINE WHEEL MARK TO ONE TUREEN, INCISED NI TO BOTH STANDS

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A PAIR OF HÖCHST PORCELAIN WOODCOCK TUREENS AND COVERS
CIRCA 1750-55, AUBERGINE WHEEL MARK TO ONE TUREEN, INCISED NI TO BOTH STANDS
Each naturalistically modeled seated with their neck arched upwards, on shaped platters with feather-like gadroons at the border
13 in. (33 cm.) long, the stands
Provenance
Acquired from Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, 1950.
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Lot Essay

For a pair of fayence birds of this rare form, their stands lacking, in the The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, see accession nos. 1974.356.241a, b and .242a, b. Also compare the example from the Museum Angewandte Kunst (formerly the Museum für Kunsthandwerk) in Frankfurt am Main, illustrated in P.W. Meister and H. Reber, Europäisches Porzellan, Fribourg, 1980, p. 265, no. 514, here identified as a Schnepfe (snipe).

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