A HÖCHST FAYENCE MODEL OF A JAY CIRCA 1750
Modelled perched on an oak tree-stump with a smaller bird in a hollow, the tree-stump applied with fungi and oak leaves
161⁄2 in. (42 cm.) high
Provenance
Another model of this type is illustrated by Horst Reber, Die Kurmainzische Porzellanmanufaktur Höchst, Munich, 1986, Vol. II, fig 17. An example of a different model of a jay perched on a tree-stump was sold Sotheby's, London, 23 November 1965, lot 65.
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Modelled perched on an oak tree-stump with a smaller bird in a hollow, the tree-stump applied with fungi and oak leaves
161⁄2 in. (42 cm.) high
Provenance
Another model of this type is illustrated by Horst Reber, Die Kurmainzische Porzellanmanufaktur Höchst, Munich, 1986, Vol. II, fig 17. An example of a different model of a jay perched on a tree-stump was sold Sotheby's, London, 23 November 1965, lot 65.