MÉNAGE WITH A BOY AND A DOLPHIN Bayreuth, circa 1765.

MÉNAGE WITH A BOY AND A DOLPHIN

Bayreuth, circa 1765.
Faience decorated in overglaze enamels. Modelled as a boy riding a dolphin between two shell-shaped vessels, with a basket on his head. Unmarked.
26 × 24 × 14.3 cm.
Chips to the glaze.

Provenance:
- Antiquités Bastian, Strasbourg.
- Peter Ducret Collection, Kilchberg, acquired ca. 1990.

P. Ducret based his attribution on a comparison with a faience clock case in the Museum Bayreuth (Miller 1994, no. 208, p. 151).