Lot 26
  • 26

A Nymphenburg figure of a putto as an actor, circa 1755-60

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • PORCELAIN
  • 10cm., 3 7/8 in. high
modelled by Franz Anton Bustelli from the series ‘Ovidischen Götter’, the figure holding a bearded mask over his face, standing upon a scroll-edged base picked out in green and gilding, impressed shield mark edged in gilding to top of base at front, impressed numeral 2 to underside of base,

Provenance

Antique Porcelain Company, London;
The Bruno Levi Collection, Christie's London, A Unique Collection of Nymphenburg Porcelain, 3rd July 1956, lot 17

Literature

Ulrich Pietsch, Preziosen, einer süddeutschen Kunstsammlung, 2001, p. 84;
Katharina Hantschmann, Alfred Ziffer, Franz Anton Bustelli - Nymphenburger Porzellanfiguren des Rokoko, 2004, p. 426

Condition

In excellent condition
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Catalogue Note

For a full list of comparable examples see, Hantschmann, Ziffer, op. cit., p. 426. Coloured examples of this model are rare and only two other examples are privately owned today. An example left in the white is in the Museum of Applied Art, Frankfurt, Inv.-Nr.9978 (published by Verlag C. H. Beck, Bustelli, Nymphenburger Porzellanfiguren des Rokoko, 1997, p. 426, no. 49); a further example in the white from the Dr. Sigismund Felix Freiherr von Ow, Bischof von Passau collection (published by Friedrich Hofmann, Geschichte der Porzellan-Manufaktur Nymphenburg, 1923, Vol. II, pl. 213).