A Zrich figure of a vegetable-seller Circa 1770, traces of blue Z mark, incised C.Z/N
Wearing a white mob cap, grey bodice, pink skirt and black shoes, holding a shallow rectangular basket with parsnips, standing before a tree-stump on a circular grassy rockwork shallow mound base (minute flaking to black enamel)
3 in. (9.8 cm.) high
Lot Essay
Cf. Siegfried Ducret, Die Zrcher Porzellanmanufaktur (Zrich, 1958), Vol. II, p.87, fig 134, and also the similar example sold in our Geneva Rooms on 15th May 1995, lot 14.