A HÖCHST FAYENCE MODEL OF A PARROT ON A TREE-STUMP

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SOLD BY THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COLLECTION (LOTS 447-450)

A HÖCHST FAYENCE MODEL OF A PARROT ON A TREE-STUMP

CIRCA 1750, BLACK WHEEL MARK AND E1, POSSIBLY MODELED BY GEORG FRIEDRICH HESS AND DECORATED BY JOHANNES ZESCHINGER

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A HÖCHST FAYENCE MODEL OF A PARROT ON A TREE-STUMP
CIRCA 1750, BLACK WHEEL MARK AND E1, POSSIBLY MODELED BY GEORG FRIEDRICH HESS AND DECORATED BY JOHANNES ZESCHINGER
The brilliantly plumed bird perched on a yellow and ochre pierced tree-stump with grasswork border, a cherry in its beak
14 7/8 in. (37.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Kiyi and Edward Pflueger, New York.
Bequest to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston upon the death of Mrs. Pflueger in 2006.

Literature

Horst Reber, Die Kurmainzische Porzellan-Manufaktur Höchst, Munich, 1986, p. 59, no. 29.
Hugo Morley-Fletcher, Early European Porcelain and Faience as Collected by Edward and Kiyi Pflueger, London, 1993, pp. 146-147.

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Lot Essay

For a similar bird in the Hessiches Landes Museum, Kassel, see August Spöhr, Deutsche Fayencen und Deutsches Steingut, fig. 45 and Huscher, Deutsche Fayencen, fig. 339. Another is illustrated by Siegfried Ducret, German Porcelain and Faience, p. 80, pl. 16. A third was sold Christie's, London, 31 May 1951, lot 34.

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