Lot Essay
This figure does not appear to be recorded by Kurt Röder in Das Höchster Porzellan (Mainz, 1925).
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CIRCA 1755, IRON-RED WHEEL MARK, INCISED ,
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A HÖCHST FIGURE OF A MUSICIAN
CIRCA 1755, IRON-RED WHEEL MARK, INCISED ,
Modelled with a cheerful expression, dancing and playing the lute, wearing a green-edged puce bodice with sgraffito scrolls and flowerheads, a white blouse with long cuffs, a pale-yellow billowing skirt with pale-blue stripes and flowerheads and turquoise shoes, plucking the lute strings with a quill, before a short tree-stump on a high rocaille-moulded mound base enriched in puce and gilding and with two arched openings (the quill, head of instrument and a tuning key chipped, minute chip to one foot)
6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm.) high
CIRCA 1755, IRON-RED WHEEL MARK, INCISED ,
Modelled with a cheerful expression, dancing and playing the lute, wearing a green-edged puce bodice with sgraffito scrolls and flowerheads, a white blouse with long cuffs, a pale-yellow billowing skirt with pale-blue stripes and flowerheads and turquoise shoes, plucking the lute strings with a quill, before a short tree-stump on a high rocaille-moulded mound base enriched in puce and gilding and with two arched openings (the quill, head of instrument and a tuning key chipped, minute chip to one foot)
6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Crisenoy de Lyonne according to the attached paper armorial collection label
With A. Torre, from whom it was acquired in 1971.
With A. Torre, from whom it was acquired in 1971.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.