TWO HÖCHST FAYENCE MODELS OF PARROTS

CIRCA 1750, ONE WITH BROWN WHEEL IZ MARK

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TWO HÖCHST FAYENCE MODELS OF PARROTS
CIRCA 1750, ONE WITH BROWN WHEEL IZ MARK
Painted by Johannes Zeschinger and probably modelled by Johann Gottfried Becker, naturally decorated with bright blue and purple plumage, yellow beaks and yellow patches around their eyes, each perched on a pierced tree-stump base (both cracked above their claws and restuck and restored, one with replacement tail, other restored to base)
The tallest 8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

One of a pair of similar parrots formerly in the L. Koch Collection, Frankfurt, is illustrated by Horst Reber, Die Kurmainzische Porzellan-Manufaktur Höchst, Munich, 1986, Vol. II (Fayencen), p. 61, fig. 33.

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