Five Höchst porcelain models of children at play - image-1

Lot 938 Dα

Five Höchst porcelain models of children at play

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 2.000 € - 2.400 €

Five Höchst porcelain models of children at play

Blue wheel marks with electoral crown, incised marks. Minor older restorations to both water jugs, a chip to the hat brim, the ribbon on the jockey's cap defective. The tallest boy H 15 cm.
Models by Johann Peter Melchior, around 1770 - 80.

Literature

Cf. cat. Johann Peter Melchior 1747 – 1825 Bildhauer und Modellmeister in Höchst, Frankenthal und Nymphenburg, Gelsenkirchen 1997, ill. 49, 78, 162.