拍品專文
Cf. the example sold at Sotheby's on 8 July 1969, lot 81.
CIRCA 1775
細節
A Volkstedt group of Bird-nesters
Circa 1775
Modelled as a young man in a puce coat and yellow breeches climbing down from the branches of a tree holding a bird's nest containing two chicks, his companion in a yellow hat and a flowered dress standing ready to receive the nest, on an oval mound base naturally coloured and applied with his hat and a birdcage (damages and losses to trees and foliage, minute chip to brim of her hat, very minor and minute chipping to edge of base)
10¾ in. (27.2 cm.) high
Circa 1775
Modelled as a young man in a puce coat and yellow breeches climbing down from the branches of a tree holding a bird's nest containing two chicks, his companion in a yellow hat and a flowered dress standing ready to receive the nest, on an oval mound base naturally coloured and applied with his hat and a birdcage (damages and losses to trees and foliage, minute chip to brim of her hat, very minor and minute chipping to edge of base)
10¾ in. (27.2 cm.) high