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See Kurt Röder, Das Höchster Porzellan (Mainz, 1925), pl. 73, no. 399 for a similar example.
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CIRCA 1770, BLUE WHEEL MARK
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A HÖCHST FIGURE OF A GIRL WITH A JUG
CIRCA 1770, BLUE WHEEL MARK
Modelled by J.P. Melchior with her head turned to the left, wearing a white headscarf, gilt-edged blue bodice, white overskirt and puce skirt, standing barefoot holding a baluster jug with both hands, on a shaped grassy mound base edged with rocks (minute chipping to edge of base, footrim of jug and edge of overskirt at back, slight crack to headscarf above forehead)
4½ in. (11.4 cm.) high
CIRCA 1770, BLUE WHEEL MARK
Modelled by J.P. Melchior with her head turned to the left, wearing a white headscarf, gilt-edged blue bodice, white overskirt and puce skirt, standing barefoot holding a baluster jug with both hands, on a shaped grassy mound base edged with rocks (minute chipping to edge of base, footrim of jug and edge of overskirt at back, slight crack to headscarf above forehead)
4½ in. (11.4 cm.) high
Special notice
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