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

CIRCA 1750, MODELED BY JOHANN GOTTFRIED BECKER AND PROBABLY DECORATED BY JOHANNES ZESCHINGER

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A HÖCHST FAYENCE MODEL OF A PARROT ON A TREE-STUMP
CIRCA 1750, MODELED BY JOHANN GOTTFRIED BECKER AND PROBABLY DECORATED BY JOHANNES ZESCHINGER
The brilliantly plumed bird perched on a hollow brown and green tree-stump
15 in. (38 cm.) high

Provenance

E.J. Hunt; Christie's, London 6 July 1964, lot 105.
Edward and Kathleen (Kiyi) Pflueger, New York.
Bequest to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston upon the death of Mrs. Pflueger in 2006.

Literature

H. Reber, Die Kurmainzische Porzellan Manufaktur Höchst, Munich, 1986, p. 59, no. 28.
H. Morley-Fletcher, The Pfleuger Collection, Early European Porcelain and Faience as Collected by Edward and Kiyi Pflueger, London, 1993, pp. 150-151.

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Lot Essay

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

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