A Höchst porcelain group of a childhood idyll - image-1

Lot 1271 Dα

A Höchst porcelain group of a childhood idyll

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 14:30 - Porcelain Glass
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 1.764 € (incl. premium)

A Höchst porcelain group of a childhood idyll

Depicting three children with a dog on a naturalistic earth mound base. Blue wheel mark. Two of the hands, the lead and ears of the dog and the hat brim restored. H 15.8 cm.
After 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. 43 for this same group in the possession of the town of Ratingen.