A Höchst porcelain candlestick with kissing figures
Designed as a shepherd couple standing on a rocaille plinth encrusted with foliage and picked out in purple and gold with their hands clasped around the two candle holders and a sheep, goat and dog at their feet. Hollow glazed base with firing supports and purple wheel mark, incised mark IH. The left nozzle and the foliage, her extended arm, the shepherd's crook, the horns and ears of the animals and some foliage restored. H 26.4, W 25.5 cm.
Electoral Mainz Manufactory Höchst, around 1753, model by Simon Feilner.
Provenance
South German collection, auctioned by Lempertz Cologne auction 827 on 15th November 2002, lot 111.
Literature
Cf. Röder/Oppenheim, das Höchster Porzellan auf der Jahrtausend-Ausstellung in Mainz 1925, Mainz 1930, cat. no. 170, p. 40, "Leuchter mit Schäferpaar" from the collection ofAdolf Beckhardt, Frankfurt.
S.a. Stahl/Ohlig, Höchster Porzellan 1746 – 1796, Frankfurt 1994, cat. 5.4.2., p. 171, for an example in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk Frankfurt, there also comparable examples in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln and the Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin.
The example from the collection of Pauls Riehen in Meister (ed.), Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, vol. II Meissen Höchst Frankenthal Ludwigsburg, Frankfurt 1967, p. 40 f.