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A HÖCHST PORCELAIN FIGURE OF ISABELLA'S MAID FROM THE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE
A HÖCHST PORCELAIN FIGURE OF ISABELLA'S MAID FROM THE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE
A HÖCHST PORCELAIN FIGURE OF ISABELLA'S MAID FROM THE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE
A HÖCHST PORCELAIN FIGURE OF ISABELLA'S MAID FROM THE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE
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A HÖCHST PORCELAIN FIGURE OF ISABELLA'S MAID FROM THE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE

CIRCA 1752

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A HÖCHST PORCELAIN FIGURE OF ISABELLA'S MAID FROM THE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE
CIRCA 1752
Almost certainly modelled by J.C.L. von Lücke, wearing, wearing a tasselled red cap, white ruff, yellow bodice, and floral skirt, standing on a gilt-edged plinth base before a tree stump
8 7⁄8 in. (22.7cm.) high
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This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.

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Lot Essay


The Otto Blohm Collection had two figures of Isabella’s Maid, one is illustrated by Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as collected by Otto Blohm, Munich, 1953, pl. 46, no. 163, and the other, which later passed into the Pflueger Collection, is unillustrated but noted on p. 131, no. 164. The Pflueger example is illustrated by H. Reber in H. Morley-Fletcher, Early European Porcelain & Faience as collected by Kiyi and Edward Pflueger, London, 1993, Vol. I, p. 122.

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