Lot 134
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A Zürich figure of a street-vendor
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A Zürich figure of a street-vendor

CIRCA 1780

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A Zürich figure of a street-vendor
Circa 1780
Wearing a pink waistcoat, blue and iron-red striped skirt, pale-yellow underskirt and white apron, holding a rectangular cage at her right side and a basket of flowers suspended from her left elbow, a small bird perched on her left hand, standing barefoot before rocks on a shallow circular naturally coloured grassy rockwork mound base (handle of basket lacking, a minute chip to tips of two leaves)
5 3/8 in. (13.5 cm.) high
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

Cf. Siegfried Ducret, Die Zürcher Porzellanmanufaktur (Zürich, 1958), Vol. I, p. 120, pl. 101 and Vol. II, p. 234, pl. 422 for similar examples and Vol. I, p. 121, pl. 102 for a plate painted with the same subject. See also the similar example sold in these Rooms on 8th November 1999, lot 184.

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