Two Höchst porcelain groups of a shepherd and shepherdess, circa 1775
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Description
modelled by J.P. Melchior, the first with a shepherdess seated beside a sheep, decorating a hat with flowers, her companion seated on grassy rockwork beside her, the second with a shepherdess decorating a lamb with a garland of flowers, her companion leaning against a treestump beside her, holding a pipe, each accompanied by a dog, the first with crowned wheel mark in underglaze-blue and incised JK monogram, the second with wheel mark in underglaze-blue and incised M.S. No=jj.
Height of first 7 ⅝ in; 19,4 cm
Height of second 7 ⅞ in; 20 cm
The hat group: Le Tallec Collection (according to applied paper label to base).
For the models see Horst Reber, Höchster Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus Privatbesitz, exh. cat., Frankfurt am Main, 1984-85, p. 105 (the hat decorating group) and p. 107 (the sheep decorating group).
