Lot Essay
See Siegfried Ducret, Die Zürcher Porzellanmanufaktur, p. 221, no. 397 for the only other recorded example of this figure
Various Properties
A ZURICH FIGURE OF A YOUTH PLAYING A MUSIC-BOX in a black hat with white plumes, white ruff, and iron-red jacket and hose and buff doublet with gilt buttons, holding a music-box under his left arm and standing before a tree-stump on a circular mound base stippled in brown, green and black (handle of music box lacking), blue Z mark and incised F4M1, circa 1770
Details
A ZURICH FIGURE OF A YOUTH PLAYING A MUSIC-BOX in a black hat with white plumes, white ruff, and iron-red jacket and hose and buff doublet with gilt buttons, holding a music-box under his left arm and standing before a tree-stump on a circular mound base stippled in brown, green and black (handle of music box lacking), blue Z mark and incised F4M1, circa 1770
16.5cm. high
16.5cm. high