Lot Essay
For a similar figure made at Ludwigsburg, see lot 208.
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CIRCA 1775
Details
A ZÜRICH (SOFT-PASTE) FIGURE OF A LADY WITH A MUFF
CIRCA 1775
Modelled by Josef Nees, wearing a white bonnet and head-scarf, a black ruff, pink coat and pale-yellow skirt, pulling a fur-lined hooded cape around her, on a stepped circular base (head restuck at neck, glaze blemish to edge of cape, very small crack with associated flaking to fold of her hood)
4¾ in. (12.2 cm.) high
CIRCA 1775
Modelled by Josef Nees, wearing a white bonnet and head-scarf, a black ruff, pink coat and pale-yellow skirt, pulling a fur-lined hooded cape around her, on a stepped circular base (head restuck at neck, glaze blemish to edge of cape, very small crack with associated flaking to fold of her hood)
4¾ in. (12.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Paul Schnyder von Wartensee Collection, sale Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 13th November 1975, lot 127.
With A. Torre, from whom it was acquired in 1975.
With A. Torre, from whom it was acquired in 1975.
Literature
Siegfried Ducret, Die Zürcher Porzellanmanufaktur (Zürich, Literature 1958), Vol. II, p. 72, pl. 116.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.