Lot Essay
The group is ascribed by Ducret to the modeller of the Tanzgruppen, see the example from the Schwarzenbach Collection sold by Sotheby's Zürich on 7th May 1974, lot 99.
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CIRCA 1770, IMPRESSED K 4
Details
A ZÜRICH (SOFT-PASTE) GROUP OF AN AMOROUS COUPLE
CIRCA 1770, IMPRESSED K 4
He standing with his arm around his companion's waist, she with her left hand out-stretched, her right hand holding a two-handled tub, both standing by a small pile of rocks on a circular plinth base moulded with coloured pebbles, grasses and foliage (her left arm restuck with damage and restoration to her hand, restored chip to brim of his hat, staff lacking from his right hand, minute flaking to black enamel of his boots)
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high
CIRCA 1770, IMPRESSED K 4
He standing with his arm around his companion's waist, she with her left hand out-stretched, her right hand holding a two-handled tub, both standing by a small pile of rocks on a circular plinth base moulded with coloured pebbles, grasses and foliage (her left arm restuck with damage and restoration to her hand, restored chip to brim of his hat, staff lacking from his right hand, minute flaking to black enamel of his boots)
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high
Provenance
P. Wolf Collection, Zürich, until 1954.
Literature
Siegfried Ducret, Die Zürcher Porzellanmanufaktur (Zürich, 1958), Vol. II, p. 213, fig. 382, where the gentleman is illustrated with his staff.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.