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Lot 178

A pair of Höchst figures of a Sultan and Sultana, circa 1770

3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£4,000 - £6,000

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A pair of Höchst figures of a Sultan and Sultana, circa 1770

Modelled by Johann Peter Melchior, the boy wearing a turban, elaborately patterned tunic, a green and pale pink cloak and pink trousers, the girl with feathers in her hair wearing a similarly patterned costume and voluminous pink cloak, both holding black masks, on grassy rockwork bases, 18.4cm high, wheel marks in underglaze-blue, incised R to her, incised i/HMi to him (his mask chipped) (2)

Footnotes

For a list of further examples in public collections and an illustrated pair in biscuit, see Patricia Stahl, Höchster Porzellan 1746-1796 (1994), p.254, no. 6.8.10.

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