Lot Essay
Cf. S. Ducret, op. cit. (Zürich, 1958), Vol. II, p. 242, pl. 441 and p. 243 for a plate painted with the same subject.
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CIRCA 1780, BLUE Z .. MARK, INCISED I/G...
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A ZÜRICH FIGURE OF A SPORTSMAN AND HOUND
CIRCA 1780, BLUE Z .. MARK, INCISED I/G...
The hunter wearing a round silvered hat, green coat, apple-green waistcoat and breeches, guesturing at the hound tugging at the corner of his coat, before a tree-stump on an oval mound base moulded and applied with a branch and leaves (his raised hand a replacement, one of hound's ears restored, chip to tail and crack to one hind leg)
5¼ in. (13.4 cm.) high
CIRCA 1780, BLUE Z .. MARK, INCISED I/G...
The hunter wearing a round silvered hat, green coat, apple-green waistcoat and breeches, guesturing at the hound tugging at the corner of his coat, before a tree-stump on an oval mound base moulded and applied with a branch and leaves (his raised hand a replacement, one of hound's ears restored, chip to tail and crack to one hind leg)
5¼ in. (13.4 cm.) high
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