A ZÜRICH FIGURE OF LITERATURE modelled by Valentin Sonnenschein, ÿin pink veil, white unicc grene-lined yellow draepry and sandals, resting her elbow on a marble plinth and seated on a stool beside a pile of books, on a rectangular light-brown base (slight flakes to books), blue Z and two dots mark, incised 11, circa 1778

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A ZÜRICH FIGURE OF LITERATURE modelled by Valentin Sonnenschein, ÿin pink veil, white unicc grene-lined yellow draepry and sandals, resting her elbow on a marble plinth and seated on a stool beside a pile of books, on a rectangular light-brown base (slight flakes to books), blue Z and two dots mark, incised 11, circa 1778
14cm. high

Literature

Siegfried Ducret, op. cit., vol. II, p. 151, fig. 240

Lot Essay

See Siegfried Ducret, Keramik und Graphic, no. 404a and 405 for a similar example and the engraving by J.F. Seybold after William Beyer from which this figure is derived

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