TWO ZÜRICH FIGURES OF A SOFT PASTE SHEPHERD AND A HARD PASTE SHEPHERDESS modelled by J.J. Meyer, he in yellow hat and sleeveless-jacket, white blouse and blue breeches, playing the bagpipes and leaning on a wicket fence with a dog lying at his feet and a satchel beside the fence, she in yellow hat and skirt, white blouse with pale-blue bodice and pink overskirt, holding a bunch of flowers, leaning on crossed stumps and with a dog jumping up at her side, on circular moulded green and brown mound bases (he with hairline cracks to legs, one pipe of bagpipes lacking and chips to dog's ear, she with slight repaired chip to hat and minor chips to flowers), he with incised E.5/E, she with blue Z and two dots mark, incised H:/5 and E, circa 1768

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TWO ZÜRICH FIGURES OF A SOFT PASTE SHEPHERD AND A HARD PASTE SHEPHERDESS modelled by J.J. Meyer, he in yellow hat and sleeveless-jacket, white blouse and blue breeches, playing the bagpipes and leaning on a wicket fence with a dog lying at his feet and a satchel beside the fence, she in yellow hat and skirt, white blouse with pale-blue bodice and pink overskirt, holding a bunch of flowers, leaning on crossed stumps and with a dog jumping up at her side, on circular moulded green and brown mound bases (he with hairline cracks to legs, one pipe of bagpipes lacking and chips to dog's ear, she with slight repaired chip to hat and minor chips to flowers), he with incised E.5/E, she with blue Z and two dots mark, incised H:/5 and E, circa 1768
he 19.5cm. high
she 18cm. high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Siegfried Ducret, op. cit., vol. II, p. 50, figs. 82 and 83; a pair from the Blohm Collection sold by Sotheby's, London on 10 October 1961, and a pair from the Sammlung Alfred Schwarzenbach, sold by Sotheby's Zürich on 7 May 1974, lot 103 and an example of the shepherd sold by Christie's Geneva on 11 November 1985, lot 2 and on 24 March 1969, lot 114

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