Lot Essay
Cf. Siegfried Ducret, Die Zürcher Porzellanmanufaktur (Zürich 1959), Vol. II, p. 45, no. 73 for a similar example.
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CIRCA 1770, BLUE Z .. AND IMPRESSED K··5
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A Zürich model of a gardener
Circa 1770, blue Z .. and impressed K··5
Wearing a wide-brimmed black hat with pink roses, puce-edged pink coat and breeches, puce-edged brown waistcoat over loose white shirt, taking a cutting with a knife in his right hand from a branch held in his left, standing by a tree-stump with a brown watering-can at his feet on a circular grassy shallow mound base (knife-blade, left thumb, tip of cutting, handles and spout of watering-can replacements, minor restoration to chipping to part of hat brim, restoration to tree, very small area of restoration to hem of coat at back, minute chipping to flowers)
8¼ in. (21 cm.) high
Circa 1770, blue Z .. and impressed K··5
Wearing a wide-brimmed black hat with pink roses, puce-edged pink coat and breeches, puce-edged brown waistcoat over loose white shirt, taking a cutting with a knife in his right hand from a branch held in his left, standing by a tree-stump with a brown watering-can at his feet on a circular grassy shallow mound base (knife-blade, left thumb, tip of cutting, handles and spout of watering-can replacements, minor restoration to chipping to part of hat brim, restoration to tree, very small area of restoration to hem of coat at back, minute chipping to flowers)
8¼ in. (21 cm.) high
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