Lot Essay
Cf. Kurt Röder, Das Höchster Porzellan (Mainz, 1925), fig 43a, no. 227 for another example.
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CIRCA 1765, BLUE CROWNED WHEEL MARK
Details
A HÖCHST LARGE PASTORAL GROUP OF THE SLEEPING SHEPHERDESS (DER SCHLUMMER DER SCHÄFERIN)
CIRCA 1765, BLUE CROWNED WHEEL MARK
Modelled by J.P. Melchior, the shepherdess reclining, alseep on a grassy mound with her head resting on her arm, her hoe beneath her and a recumbent sheep nearby, a shepherd seated at her side leaning on a hollow tree-trunk garlanded with flowers on a ribbon, a child playing with a hound to the right, on a shaped grassy rockwork base (child broken from base, through neck and repaired, restoration to branch, rim of trunk, her left toes, ribbons, his hat brim, pipe and child's right hand, further minor small damages and repairs)
12¾ in. (32.5 cm.) wide
CIRCA 1765, BLUE CROWNED WHEEL MARK
Modelled by J.P. Melchior, the shepherdess reclining, alseep on a grassy mound with her head resting on her arm, her hoe beneath her and a recumbent sheep nearby, a shepherd seated at her side leaning on a hollow tree-trunk garlanded with flowers on a ribbon, a child playing with a hound to the right, on a shaped grassy rockwork base (child broken from base, through neck and repaired, restoration to branch, rim of trunk, her left toes, ribbons, his hat brim, pipe and child's right hand, further minor small damages and repairs)
12¾ in. (32.5 cm.) wide
Provenance
With Schmidt, from whom it was acquired in 1960.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.