Lot 34
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TWO ZÜRICH FIGURES OF A HUNTSMAN AND COMPANION emblematic of Autumn, in light and dark-green habits and flowered and patterned waistcoats, he in a peaked cap and long black boots, holding a rifle, a pouch containing a rabbit slung at his side and a dagger at his waist, directing his dog, on a green mound base, she with gilt flowers to her green jacket, a rifle at her right side and holding a dead fowl which her dog is sniffing and standing on a white mound base (restoration to his right hand and rifle, chip to pocket, she with restoration to hat and beak of fowl, crack to her right hand), both with blue Z and two dots mark, circa 1768

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TWO ZÜRICH FIGURES OF A HUNTSMAN AND COMPANION emblematic of Autumn, in light and dark-green habits and flowered and patterned waistcoats, he in a peaked cap and long black boots, holding a rifle, a pouch containing a rabbit slung at his side and a dagger at his waist, directing his dog, on a green mound base, she with gilt flowers to her green jacket, a rifle at her right side and holding a dead fowl which her dog is sniffing and standing on a white mound base (restoration to his right hand and rifle, chip to pocket, she with restoration to hat and beak of fowl, crack to her right hand), both with blue Z and two dots mark, circa 1768
22cm. high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Siegfried Ducret, op. cit., vol. II, p. 48 figs. 77 and 78, see also the pair from the Alfred Schwarzenbach Collection, sold by Sotheby's Zürich on 7 May 1974, lot 115 and an example of the huntswoman sold by Christie's Geneva on 13 November 1989, lot 1

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