CIRCA 1755

Details

A PAIR OF HÖCHST PORCELAIN MODELS OF BOARS
CIRCA 1755
Each naturalistically modelled running and leaping over tree-stump mound bases
7 1⁄8 in. (18 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 5 May 1970, lot 75.

Special notice

This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.

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Lot Essay

R.G. Vater Collection no. 535 (paper collection label attached to the underside of both).

This model is thought to have been created by Laurentius Russinger or by Johann Gottfried Becker. A model of a single boar with very similar decoration, and bearing the gilt wheel mark, was offered by Lempertz, Cologne, on 29 May 2020, lot 904. Versions of this model were also made at Strasbourg and subsequently at Frankenthal. For the Frankenthal model, see René E. Felber, Jagdmotive in der Keramik, Kilchberg, 2001, p. 21.

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