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Lot 260

A Zürich figure emblematic of Winter, circa 1770

7 December 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Zürich figure emblematic of Winter, circa 1770

Smoking a pipe with his ice-skates in his right jacket pocket, wearing a green fur-lined hat, brown gloves, a brown jacket, blue waistcoat with flowers and crimson breeches, on a circular base with rockwork, 21.2cm high, Z mark and three dots in underglaze-blue (some restoration)

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Modelled before 1768; for two more examples of this model in the Dr. E.S. Kern Collection, Horgen, Switzerland, see Schnyder 2009, nos. 14 and 15.

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