CIRCA 1760, BROWN ENAMEL WHEEL MARK

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A HÖCHST CHINOISERIE GROUP
CIRCA 1760, BROWN ENAMEL WHEEL MARK
Modelled by Johann Peter, with a finely dressed lady, with flowers tied in her hair with a ribbon, wearing elaborate flowered robes loosely tied at her waist with a turquoise sash over a puce tunic, the bowing attendant to her left with a shaved head and holding a parasol handle, wearing a pale-blue robe over patterned garments, both standing on paving above a shaped rockwork base (upper section of parasol lacking with associated restoration to handle and attendant's hand, her hands broken at wrists and restuck, one a replacement, minor chipping to extremities, scratches to enamels of his robes)
8 1/8 in. (20.7 cm.) high

Provenance

With A. Torre, from whom it was acquired in 1970.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

This group was intended to form part of a table decoration with a Chinoiserie Emperor at the centre, see Röder, op. cit. (Mainz, 1925), fig. 52. Another example of this model was in the Budge Collection, sale Graupe, Berlin, 27-29th September 1937, lot 875.

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