European Ceramics, Glass, Silver and Vertu

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Lot 104
  • 104

A Meissen Böttger stoneware bust of a woman second half 1930s

Estimate
1,800 - 2,200 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • crossed swords mark impressed to rear and underside of base, impressed 'BOTTGER/STEINZEUG', incised model number A1037, impressed 124 and mass number L241
  • 29cm., 11 1/2 in.
modelled by Professor Paul Börner, the details finely polished

Catalogue Note

Professor Paul Börner (1888-1970) studied in Meissen, Dresden and in Florence, and was appointed to the Meissen manufactory as a painter in 1910. From 1930 he was Director of the painting and design studios and from 1937 Professor at the Akademie für Kunstgewerbe Dresden. During the 1950s he designed small-scale figures for the Berlin manufactory. See C. Marusch-Krohn, Meissener Porzellan 1918-1933 Die Pfeifferzeit, no.46, for a similar example, which was modelled in 1922.