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Lot 161

Two Zürich figures of a man and a woman, circa 1775

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

£2,500 - £3,500

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Two Zürich figures of a man and a woman, circa 1775

Both wearing pastoral costume, the lady carrying flowers in her white apron and holding onto a bundle of wheat, the man using bellows on roasting chestnuts and leaning on a tree stump, on circular bases, 14.5cm high, Z mark and three dots in blue, incised 13 and D (2)

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Both models are illustrated in Mitteilungsblatt der Keramikfreunde der Schweiz 122 (2009), p.58-59, nos. 80 and 83. Another example of the girl was sold at Sotheby's Zurich, 7 May 1975, lot 88.

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