A Höchst porcelain group with a sleeping child - image-1

Lot 1270 Dα

A Höchst porcelain group with a sleeping child

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 14:30 - Porcelain Glass
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 1.638 € (incl. premium)

A Höchst porcelain group with a sleeping child

Depicting two children and a dog on a naturalistic earth mound base. Blue wheel mark. Two small filled firing cracks to the back of the plinth and side of the pedestal, minor chips and retouches. H 17 cm.
C. 1770, model by Johann Peter Melchior.

Provenance

Hans Steinbeck, Aachen.
Family ownership, North Rhine-Westphalia since 1988.

Literature

Cf. cat. Johann Peter Melchior 1747 - 1825 Bildhauer und Modellmeister in Höchst, Frankenthal und Nymphenburg, Gelsenkirchen 1997, illus. 41 f.