Circle of Balthasar Permoser (Kammer 1651-1732 Dresden), German, Early 18th Century
An Infant Bacchus Seated on a Wine-Barrel
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Description
paper label on underside inscribed in ink O8629 MDZ650 -
boxwood with associated boxwood base
height 7 ¼ in.
18.5 cm.
Christie's London, 7 December 2006, lot 102;
Where acquired by Aso O. Tavitian.
Compare a signed ivory figure of a Seated child Holding a Skull by Permoser in a private collection in Niebüll, Germany1 with similar body type, full cheeks, and small features with wide-set eyes.
1J. Rasmussen (ed.), Barockplastick in Norddeutschland, exhibition catalogue, Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 16 September - 6 November 1977, no. 193.