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Lot 158

Two Höchst figures of young girls, circa 1775

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

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Two Höchst figures of young girls, circa 1775

Each wearing a yellow bodice, pink skirt and white apron, one carrying a flower basket, the other crying over an overturned jug at her feet, on grassy rockwork bases, 15cm high, wheel marks in underglaze-blue, incised N82, MA and MIS and impressed M (2)

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The model of the girl with the jug is often called "The Spilt Milk" and was modelled by Johann Peter Melchior between 1770 and 1775. It is illustrated in E. Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century Vol.II (1972) p.78-79 and in Patricia Stahl, Höchster Porzellan 1746-1796 (1994), p.197, no. 6.2.12.

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