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Lot 196

A large Höchst-Damm group of 'Der Schlummer der Schäferin', circa 1825

14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A large Höchst-Damm group of 'Der Schlummer der Schäferin', circa 1825

After the 18th century Höchst porcelain model by J.P. Melchior, depicting a sleeping shepherdess attended by a shepherd seated next to her and a small boy with a dog, on a grassy and rockwork base, 23.6cm high, incised 35 (minor restoration and losses)

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Provenance:
Ernst Blumka (1886-1969), Vienna (to 1938) and London;
Thence by descent to the Eveline Newgas Collection, London

The original model is after the engraving 'Les Amours Pastorales' by Claude Augustin Duflos, after the painting by Boucher in the Wallace Collection, London. See Patricia Stahl, Höchster Porzellan 1746-1796 (1994), nos.6.3.3. and 6.3.4. for an example and discussion of the porcelain model and the source print.

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