CIRCA 1752

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A Höchst chocolate-pot and cover
Circa 1752
Of baluster form with branch handle, painted in grand feu colours with scattered bouquets and flower-sprays, the small spout with blue stripes supported by moulded ochre and puce scrolls, on simulated brown tree-stump feet with applied flowering branch terminals, the shallow domed cover with rose finial and extended spout-cover similarly decorated with stripes and scrolls, iron-red line rims (minute chipping to tip of spout, slight chipping and flaking to feet, chipping to terminals, cover with restored chipping to rim and restuck spout-cover)
77/8 in. (20 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

An almost identical example in the Museum fur Kunsthandwerke, Frankfurt (and ascribed to Höchst) is illustrated in M. Bauer, op. cit. (Frankfurt 1977), fig. 238. It is also illustrated in H. Reber, op. cit (Münich 1986), fig. 1090 with another example from a Münich private collection as fig. 111. This model was also made at Strasbourg.

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