Lot Essay
Cf. Siegfried Ducret, op. cit. (Zrich, 1958), Vol. I, p. 120 for a similar example and p. 121 for an illustration of the printed source.
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CIRCA 1770, INCISED .J C :H
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A Zrich figure of a street-vendor
Circa 1770, incised .Jc :H
Wearing a pink waistcoat, yellow skirt, pale-blue underskirt and black apron, holding a pierced rectangular cage at her right side and a basket of flowers suspended from her left elbow, a small bird perched on her left hand, standing barefoot before rocks on a shallow circular naturally coloured grassy rockwork mound base (handle of basket lacking, minute chipping to edge of base)
5 in. (14 cm.) high
Circa 1770, incised .J
Wearing a pink waistcoat, yellow skirt, pale-blue underskirt and black apron, holding a pierced rectangular cage at her right side and a basket of flowers suspended from her left elbow, a small bird perched on her left hand, standing barefoot before rocks on a shallow circular naturally coloured grassy rockwork mound base (handle of basket lacking, minute chipping to edge of base)
5 in. (14 cm.) high