Lot 33
  • 33

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

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • impressed crossed swords mark with two cancellation marks to rear of base, impressed crossed swords mark and 'STAATLICH MEISSEN/ BöTTGERSTEINZEUG', impressed model number A1037, mass number L241 and numeral 124

  • 30.4cm., 11 7/8 in.
modelled by Professor Paul Börner, the details lightly polished

Condition

In good condition.
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Catalogue Note

Professor Paul Börner (1888-1970) studied in Meissen, Dresden and 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 Akadamie 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.