Lot Essay
Cf. Siegfried Ducret, op. cit. (Zürich, 1958), Vol. II, p. 199, pl. 344.
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CIRCA 1773, BLUE Z /.. MARK
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A ZÜRICH GROUP OF LOVERS BEFORE AN URN
CIRCA 1773, BLUE Z /.. MARK
Modelled by Wilhelm Spengler as a gallant and companion, his hair en queue with a black ribbon, wearing a striped and flowered jacket, a flowered waistcoat and puce breeches, embracing his companion and garlanding her hair with flowers, the girl in a puce-edged white bodice and red flowered skirt, a basket of flowers beside her, before a marbled pedestal and campana-shaped urn, the spirally-moulded cover with a flamiform finial, on a mound base edged with painted foliage and grasses (handle of basket lacking with associated over-painting, two small and minute chips to underside of footrim, very minor chipping to garlands)
6¼ in. (16 cm.) high
CIRCA 1773, BLUE Z /.. MARK
Modelled by Wilhelm Spengler as a gallant and companion, his hair en queue with a black ribbon, wearing a striped and flowered jacket, a flowered waistcoat and puce breeches, embracing his companion and garlanding her hair with flowers, the girl in a puce-edged white bodice and red flowered skirt, a basket of flowers beside her, before a marbled pedestal and campana-shaped urn, the spirally-moulded cover with a flamiform finial, on a mound base edged with painted foliage and grasses (handle of basket lacking with associated over-painting, two small and minute chips to underside of footrim, very minor chipping to garlands)
6¼ in. (16 cm.) high
Provenance
Alfred Schwarzenbach Collection, sale Sotheby's Zürich, 7th May 1974, lot 100.
Special notice
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