A Höchst porcelain réchaud, Circa 1755-60

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November 13, 04:00 PM GMT

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Property of an Important European Collection

A Höchst porcelain réchaud

Circa 1755-60

with a tapering cylindrical chimney moulded with pierced satyr masks and leaf scroll handles, pierced with an arched opening. the food bowl with acanthus-leaf handles, the dome cover with a cone finial, the circular burner with a scroll-moulded thumbpiece, painted in purpurmalerei with vignettes of a shepherd, shepherdess and a gentlman and female companions in landscape, the plain ground painted with scattered insects and sprigs, the vignettes and arch with rocaille, enruched in gilt, iron-red wheel mark to chimney and numeral `3` to food warmer

19.5cm. 7⅝ in. high

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Sammlung Adolf Beckhardt.

See Stahl, P. Höchster Porzellan 1746-1796, Frankfurt, 1994, p. 175, cat. no. 5.4.13. Further examples are in the collections of the Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum, Mainz (Inv.-Nr. M. O. 155 and 28/107), Kunstgewerbemuseum, Koln (Inv.-Nr. 1292 a, b), the Höchster Schloß (Inv.-Nr. PH 140 and PH 126) and in the collection of the Groninger Museum (Inv.-Nr. 1960-80). See also Röder, K. and Oppenheim, M., Das Höchster Porzellan auf der Jahrausend-Austellung in Mainz 1925, Mainz, 1930, tafeln 126d and 128b for the form.