TWO HÖCHST FAYENCE MODELS OF PARROTS
Lot 523

TWO HÖCHST FAYENCE MODELS OF PARROTS

CIRCA 1750, ONE WITH BROWN WHEEL IZ MARK

Closed31 May 2012

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GBP 16,250

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TWO HÖCHST FAYENCE MODELS OF PARROTS
CIRCA 1750, ONE WITH BROWN WHEEL IZ MARK
Painted by Johannes Zeschinger and probably modelled by Johann Gottfried Becker, naturally decorated with bright blue and purple plumage, yellow beaks and yellow patches around their eyes, each perched on a pierced tree-stump base (both cracked above their claws and restuck and restored, one with replacement tail, other restored to base)
The tallest 8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

One of a pair of similar parrots formerly in the L. Koch Collection, Frankfurt, is illustrated by Horst Reber, Die Kurmainzische Porzellan-Manufaktur Höchst, Munich, 1986, Vol. II (Fayencen), p. 61, fig. 33.