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CIRCA 1770, BLUE Z MARK
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A ZÜRICH EQUESTRIAN FIGURE
CIRCA 1770, BLUE Z MARK
Wearing a gilt-edged green peaked cap, a gilt-edged green jacket with a turquoise collar and cuffs, a gilt-edged green flowered turquoise waistcoat, gilt-edged green skirt and black shoes with gilt buckles, seated side-saddle with a long grey whip in her left hand and black reins in her right hand, the caparisoned white horse with its left foreleg raised, with silvered shoes, red rosettes on its black bridle and at the root of its tail, the gilt-edged puce saddle-cloth with purple flowers, red and gilt tassels and a scalloped rear and lower edge, supported below by a tree-stump on a shaped rectangular green and brown mottled incised mound base (horse's left ear restored, whip handle lacking, some flaking to turquoise enamel, areas of slight wear)
6¾ in. (17 cm.) high
CIRCA 1770, BLUE Z MARK
Wearing a gilt-edged green peaked cap, a gilt-edged green jacket with a turquoise collar and cuffs, a gilt-edged green flowered turquoise waistcoat, gilt-edged green skirt and black shoes with gilt buckles, seated side-saddle with a long grey whip in her left hand and black reins in her right hand, the caparisoned white horse with its left foreleg raised, with silvered shoes, red rosettes on its black bridle and at the root of its tail, the gilt-edged puce saddle-cloth with purple flowers, red and gilt tassels and a scalloped rear and lower edge, supported below by a tree-stump on a shaped rectangular green and brown mottled incised mound base (horse's left ear restored, whip handle lacking, some flaking to turquoise enamel, areas of slight wear)
6¾ in. (17 cm.) high
Provenance
Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, sale Sotheby's London, 10th October 1961, lot 594 (£1,550 to Chester)
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.
Literature
Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), p. 226, no. 338 and col. pl. 91.
Siegfried Ducret, Die Zürcher Porzellanmanufaktur (Zürich, 1958), Vol. II, fig. 314.
Siegfried Ducret, Die Zürcher Porzellanmanufaktur (Zürich, 1958), Vol. II, fig. 314.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.