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See Kurt Röder, op. cit. (Mainz, 1925), pl. 78, no. 439 for a similar example.
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CIRCA 1770, BLUE WHEEL MARK
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A HÖCHST FIGURE OF A GIRL
CIRCA 1770, BLUE WHEEL MARK
Modelled by J.P. Melchior, her head turned slightly to the left and with a fixed gazing expression, a small posy in her right hand and further flowers caught up in her white shift lifted with her left hand, her pale-yellow lined puce cloak with a hood and tied under her chin with a turquoise bow, standing before a tree-stump on a shaped grassy mound base edged with rocks (small and minute chipping to edge of base with some re-touching, slight chipping to edge of hood and cloak, small chip to right little finger, minute chipping to flowers, gap between shift and tree filled with plaster, probably from time of manufacture)
5¾ in. (14.5 cm.) high
CIRCA 1770, BLUE WHEEL MARK
Modelled by J.P. Melchior, her head turned slightly to the left and with a fixed gazing expression, a small posy in her right hand and further flowers caught up in her white shift lifted with her left hand, her pale-yellow lined puce cloak with a hood and tied under her chin with a turquoise bow, standing before a tree-stump on a shaped grassy mound base edged with rocks (small and minute chipping to edge of base with some re-touching, slight chipping to edge of hood and cloak, small chip to right little finger, minute chipping to flowers, gap between shift and tree filled with plaster, probably from time of manufacture)
5¾ in. (14.5 cm.) high
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