From Meissen to Paris : The Röbbig Collection | Part III

From Meissen to Paris : The Röbbig Collection | Part III

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 775. A Höchst porcelain allegorical classical figure group, 'Die erlegte Taube', and a group of children in Turkish costume, circa 1770-75.

A Höchst porcelain allegorical classical figure group, 'Die erlegte Taube', and a group of children in Turkish costume, circa 1770-75

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modelled by J.P. Melchior, the first, with a youthful couple in classical robes, she kneeling and pointing to a slain dove, he, scantily clad, standing before a tree stump and leaning towards her, his quiver of arrows and bow at his feet, the second group with a boy holding bottle, wearing a fur-lined cloak and flowing puce robe, his arm around his companion, wearing loose puce trousers and flowing overskirt, both on grassy rockwork base, both with wheel marks in underglaze-blue, the first group with incised triangle mark, the second group incised S413 N=38 and with red enamel V mark


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Height of first group 18.3 cm; 7 ¼ in

Height of second group 19 cm; 7 ½ in

Frankfurt am Main, Jahrhunderhalle Hoechst, Höchster Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus Privatbesitz, 9 December 1984 - 9 January 1985 (group of children in Turkish costume, exhibition label applied to base).

Horst Reber, Höchster Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus Privatbesitz, exh. cat., Frankfurt am Main, 1984-85, p. 104 (group of children in Turkish costume).

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