Lot Essay
Another example of this rare figure was sold by Christie's Geneva on 11th May 1987, lot 216. Other examples were sold in these Rooms on 9th June 1986, lot 28 (from the Nyffeler Collection); on 2nd October 1979, lot 157, and on 29th March 1976, lot 166. For the example formerly in the Mrs Nellie Ionides Collection and now in the Pauls Collection, see Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century (London, 1972), Vol. I. pp. 278-279.