Details

A STRASBOURG FAIENCE GROUP CIRCA 1750-55 Modelled with a shepherdess and a recumbent sheep, the shepherdess wearing a purple and yellow blouse, purple flowered white apron, brown and ochre flowered yellow skirt and puce shoes, seated on a pile of rocks covered with moss and grass, a tree-stump to her right, a vase on her left, the vase applied with two large pink roses and on a puce marbled plinth with white panels, on an elongated rectangular grassy mound base (sheep's right ear lacking and left ear a replacement, shepherdess's left thumb lacking, left forearm restuck and minute repair to nose, broken through base below sheep's left foreleg and repaired, further small damages and repairs) 9 1/8 in. (23.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Ernesto Blohm Collection, no. 6 (attached Collection label).

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