A HÖCHST CHINOISERIE FIGURE GROUP

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

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A HÖCHST CHINOISERIE FIGURE GROUP
CIRCA 1760, BLUE WHEEL MARK AND INCISED TRIANGLE, PERHAPS BY LORENZ RUSSINGER

Modelled as a Chinese empress, her hair tied with a striped scarf and flowers, wearing yellow-lined pink robe over a green-striped flowered tunic and yellow and pink plaid dress, walking with an attendant in gilt-trimmed white robes pink-striped tunic and yellow trousers holding a parasol above her head on a dark and light green rockwork base, some restoration and chips
8¾in. (22.2cm.) high

拍品專文

This group was inspired by the engraving L'Empereur Chinois, by J.G. Huquier after Watteau. See Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and Other Continental Porcelain Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, 1956, fig. 174 for a similar example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; George W. Ware, German and Austrian Porcelain, New York, 1963, fig. 73 for a similar group in the Schlossmuseum, Berlin; and Sammlung Frau Emma Budge, sold Paul Graupe, Berlin, September 27-29, 1937, lot 763