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Lot 154

A Höchst figure of a seated Oriental drinking tea, circa 1750-55

18 June 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Höchst figure of a seated Oriental drinking tea, circa 1750-55

Wearing a cap, blue robe, puce trousers and yellow boots, seated on rockwork in front of a tree reaching for a teabowl beside a teapot on a pedestal and drinking from a bowl in his left hand, the base with lightly painted leaves in puce, 19.5 cm high (base restuck through middle, minor losses)

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Emma Budge Collection, Hamburg

Literature:
Mainzer Zeitschrift (1939), p. 103, pl. X,3;
K.H. Esser/H. Reber, Höchster Fayencen und Porzellane (1964), no. 61

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