A museum quality Höchst porcelain group "Childhood Idyll" - image-1

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A museum quality Höchst porcelain group "Childhood Idyll"

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Ceramics
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
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A museum quality Höchst porcelain group "Childhood Idyll"

Three figure group with a cat and a dog on an earth mound base. Hollow glazed base with blue wheel mark with electoral crown, engraved "melchior" and "F", pressnummer 19. One finger lost, minor losses of pigment around the plinth. H 15.5 cm.
Model by Johann Peter Melchior, around/after 1770.

Literature

Cf. cat. Johann Peter Melchior 1747 - 1825 Bildhauer und Modellmeister in Höchst, Frankenthal und Nymphenburg, Gelsenkirchen 1997, fig. 43, an identical example in the Museum der Stadt Ratingen.