A Höchst porcelain model of Venus and Cupid with doves
A Höchst porcelain model of Venus and Cupid with doves
Depicting the goddess Venus in a purple drapery. Blue wheel mark with two incised marks. Firing cracks, one wing broken, small chips to the drapery and the edge of the base. H 33.2 cm.
Model by Johann Peter Melchior, circa 1771.
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Cf. cat. Johann Peter Melchior, Gelsenkirchen 1997, illus. 119.
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A Höchst porcelain model of Venus and Cupid with doves
Depicting the goddess Venus in a purple drapery. Blue wheel mark with two incised marks. Firing cracks, one wing broken, small chips to the drapery and the edge of the base. H 33.2 cm.
Model by Johann Peter Melchior, circa 1771.
Literature
Cf. cat. Johann Peter Melchior, Gelsenkirchen 1997, illus. 119.