Three Höchst porcelain figures of children - image-1

Lot 665 Dα

Three Höchst porcelain figures of children

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Ceramics
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €
Bid

Three Höchst porcelain figures of children

White porcelain figure of a crying boy, H 15 cm. Girl with outstretched arms painted in overglaze pigments, base engraved "Nr. 135" and MH, H 14.2 cm. Shepherd boy, also in colours, the base engraved R, H 15 cm. All bases hollow and glazed, blue wheel marks. Firing cracks to the white porcelain figure of a boy, both arms and the hat brim of the girl restored, chips to the flowers in the hands of the shepherd boy.
1770s, models by Johann Peter Melchior.

Literature

Cf. Stahl/Ohlig, Höchster Porzellan 1746 - 1796, Frankfurt 1994, cat. 6.2.18. f.

Cf. cat. Johann Peter Melchior 1747 - 1825 Bildhauer und Modellmeister in Höchst, Frankenthal und Nymphenburg, Gelsenkirchen 1997, figs. 35 and 162.