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For two similar models see Kurt Röder, Das Höchster Porzellan (Mainz 1930), Taf. 90, nos. 546 and 547.
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CIRCA 1775, BLUE WHEEL MARK
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A Höchst group of musicians
Circa 1775, blue wheel mark
Modelled by J.P. Melchior, as a man in a black hat and pale-blue cloak playing the fiddle before a tree-stump, his younger companion in a plumed cap, seated on a barrel and playing the bagpipes flanked by a boy playing the triangle and a girl seated on the ground drinking from a tankard, wearing pale yellow, pink and green striped or plain clothes, on a shaped grassy mound base (minor damage to extremities of instruments and to fiddle player's thumb, restoration to end of bagpipe)
9 in. (23 cm.) high
Circa 1775, blue wheel mark
Modelled by J.P. Melchior, as a man in a black hat and pale-blue cloak playing the fiddle before a tree-stump, his younger companion in a plumed cap, seated on a barrel and playing the bagpipes flanked by a boy playing the triangle and a girl seated on the ground drinking from a tankard, wearing pale yellow, pink and green striped or plain clothes, on a shaped grassy mound base (minor damage to extremities of instruments and to fiddle player's thumb, restoration to end of bagpipe)
9 in. (23 cm.) high