Höchst porcelain figures of a boy as a sultan and a girl as a sultana - image-1

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Höchst porcelain figures of a boy as a sultan and a girl as a sultana

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Ceramics
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
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Höchst porcelain figures of a boy as a sultan and a girl as a sultana

Depicting the figures with black masks, the girl with a closed fan. Finely painted and standing on earth mound bases. Hollow, unmarked bases. Both hands with masks and the hand holding the fan restored. H 18.7 and 17.7 cm.
Models by Johann Peter Melchior, around 1770.

Provenance

German private collection, acquired from Röbbig, Munich.

Literature

Cf. Röder/Oppenheim, Das Höchster Porzellan auf der Jahrtausendausstellung in Mainz 1925, Mainz 1930, cat. no. 392 ff, two differently decorated pairs.

Cf. cat. Johann Peter Melchior 1747 - 1825 Bildhauer und Modellmeister in Höchst, Frankenthal und Nymphenburg, Gelsenkirchen 1997, fig. 83 f.

Cf. Reber/Ohlig, Höchster Fayencen und Porzellane. Stiftung und Sammlung Kurt Bechthold, Mainz 2002, cat. no. 160.