CIRCA 1750, BLACK WHEEL MARK IZ· -

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A Höchst model of a parrot
Circa 1750, black wheel mark iz· -
Painted Johannes Zechinger, the bird in petit feu colours and the base in grand feu colours, with red patches about its eyes, its neck, shoulders and tail with pale-blue plumage with dark-blue markings, its breast with pale-green plumage, the wings and underside of its tail enriched with red markings, naturally modelled by Johann Gottfried Becker to the right, perched on a hollow branch issuing from a knarled hollow tree-stump applied with foliage, yellow fruit and a large stag-beetle, on a pierced shaped circular grassy mound base (chipping to applied leaves and small branches, chip to edge of base at back, stag-beetle's horns lacking)
151/8 in. (38.5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Cf. Horst Reber, Die Kurmainzische Porzellanmanufaktur Höchst (Münich 1986) for illustrated Höchst models of parrots. The present lot would appear to be an unrecorded model. The use of enamel colours and high-fired colours on different parts of the same piece to achieve differing technical effects is a testimony to the skill of Zeschinger, the leading Maler at Höchst.

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