Lot 224
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A Höchst tortoise tureen and cover
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A Höchst tortoise tureen and cover

CIRCA 1750

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A Höchst tortoise tureen and cover
Circa 1750
Naturally modelled and painted in grand feu manganese and yellow, with a moulded yellow band about its neck, manganese scales to its neck and shoulders, short manganese tail and clawed feet, the cover formed as its shell with manganese bands dividing moulded raised yellow panels with managanese dot ornament (tail a replacement, chipping and grazing to claws, small rim chip and flaking to rim, cracks from rim and to interior)
101/8 in. (25.7 cm.) long
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Several other examples of this model, with a variety of factory and painter's marks are illustrated by H. Reber, Die Kurmainzische Porzellanmanufaktur Höchst (Münich 1986) pp. 70-71. Another in the Pflueger Collection is illustrated in the Catalogue, Vol. II, p. 154.

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