A Hochst group of lovers embracing (Le baise donne)

CIRCA 1750-53, GILT WHEEL MARK, INCISED I.R

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A Hochst group of lovers embracing (Le baise donne)
Circa 1750-53, gilt wheel mark, incised i.R
Modelled by Simon Feilner, the gentleman in a chequered puce coat and breeches, his companion in a yellow and green bodice and flowered skirt, the gardener looking on and standing before a tree, on a shaped scroll-moulded shallow mound base applied with farm implements (broken through base, restuck and riveted, end of scabbard, gardener's rake and her left thumb and right index finger lacking, chipping to tree, gardener's hat and edge of base, further small restorations)
7 in. (19.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's Geneva, 16 May 1994, lot 92.

Lot Essay

After Filleul's engraving of Pater's painting of the same title.

See Kurt Rder, Das Hchster Porzellan (1930), pl. 25, nr. 147 and 149 for two similar examples.

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