Details
Each modeled in bas relief with a bust-length portrait of either Freiherr von Groschlag wearing the Hungarian Order of Saint Etienne or his wife
5 ½ in. (14 cm.) high, excluding the giltwood frames
Provenance
Collection Karrick Riggs; Parke Bernet, 8 February 1947, lot 334.
The Collection of the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
Dr. Rainer Rückert, 'J. P. Melchior Porträtdarstellungen des Grafen Philipp.zu Eltz und des Freiherrn v. Groschlag', Schriften des Hostorichen Museums Frankfurt am Main, XIII, 1972, pp. 129-137, figs. 10-12.
Sale Room Notice
Please note, the second line of cataloguing should read 'LATE 18TH CENTURY, INCISED FAIT PAR MELCHIOR SCULPTEUR’.
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Karl Friedrich Willibald Freiherr von Groschlag (1729-1799) was a diplomat, ambassador to France from 1758 to 1763, first minister of the Mainz Elector Emerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim and financial director of the Höchst porcelain factory. He married Sophie Gräfin von Stadion (1753-1828) in 1774.

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