Live Auction 16722The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: English & European Furniture, Ceramics and Decorations, Part II
A PAIR OF HÖCHST PORCELAIN WOODCOCK TUREENS AND COVERS
Lot 667

A PAIR OF HÖCHST PORCELAIN WOODCOCK TUREENS AND COVERS

CIRCA 1750-55, AUBERGINE WHEEL MARK TO ONE TUREEN, INCISED NI TO BOTH STANDS

Closed10 May 2018

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A PAIR OF HÖCHST PORCELAIN WOODCOCK TUREENS AND COVERS
CIRCA 1750-55, AUBERGINE WHEEL MARK TO ONE TUREEN, INCISED NI TO BOTH STANDS
Each naturalistically modeled seated with their neck arched upwards, on shaped platters with feather-like gadroons at the border
13 in. (33 cm.) long, the stands

Acquired from Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, 1950.

Specialist note

For a pair of fayence birds of this rare form, their stands lacking, in the The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, see accession nos. 1974.356.241a, b and .242a, b. Also compare the example from the Museum Angewandte Kunst (formerly the Museum für Kunsthandwerk) in Frankfurt am Main, illustrated in P.W. Meister and H. Reber, Europäisches Porzellan, Fribourg, 1980, p. 265, no. 514, here identified as a Schnepfe (snipe).