From Meissen to Paris : The Röbbig Collection | Part I

A pair of Höchst porcelain figures of a Sultan and Sultana, circa 1770

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Estimate

1,500 - 2,500 EUR

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Description

modelled by Johann Peter Melchior, each wearing elaborate Turkish costume and flowing robes, she holding a mask in her right hand, each standing on a grassy rockwork base;

together with a Höchst porcelain group of a boy by a doghouse, circa 1770, modelled by Johann Peter Melchior, the boy modelled leaning against a doghouse and admonishing the cat for stealing the dog’s food, on a grassy rockwork base,

wheel marks in underglaze-blue, various incised marks

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Height of pair 7 ¼ in; 18,4 cm approx.

Height of group 6 ¾ in; 17 cm approx.

For the models see Horst Reber, Höchster Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus Privatbesitz, exh. cat., Frankfurt am Main, 1984-85, p. 104 (Sultan and Sultana) and p. 106 (boy by the doghouse).

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