A Nymphenbourg porcelain table surtout, 20th century

representing a French garden made of twenty-one pieces, composed of four box tree in pots, four obelisks, twelve alleys with edges, a central group of white porcelain with four figures of Cupid around a tree, an allegory of the Air, marked with the Bavarian coat of arms, and also twelve fishes, porcelain flowers, a Medicis vase on a pedestal in Sèvres taste, and four Frankenthal porcelain vases on pedestals ; (accidents)  

The illustration of the catalogue is accurate. Element n° 1-2 : chips to three leaves of the hedge. Element 2-3, chip to one leaf of the hedge. Element 3-4, chips to three leaves of the hedge. Element 4-5, chips to seven leaves of the hedge. Element 6-7, chips to four leaves of the hedge. Element 7-8, chips to two leaves of the hedge. Element 8-9 chips to two leaves of the hedge. Element 9-10, a small branch is broken and missing. Element 10-11 : good overall condition. Element 11-12, chips to seven leaves of the hedge. Element 13-14 chips to four leaves of the hedge. Element 14-2 : chips to two leaves of the hedge. Obelisk n°1, a chip on one edge half height. Obelisk n°2 : a chip to the top. Obelisk n°3, good overall condition. Obelisk n°4 ; a very small chip at the top. Boxwood: a small chip on a leaf of two elements.  The vase : made of Frankenthal porcelain, in good overall condition. The central group: small chips to the leaves of the tree. the vase in Sèvres taste is in good overall condition. 
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That Nymphenbourg porcelain table surtout, as a French garden, can be related to the important table surtout that the sculptor Franz Anton Bustelli realised at Nymphenbourg in 1754 for Marie-Anne de Bavière's wedding, with the margrave Louis-Georges of Baden-Baden. That table surtout, for a long time preserved at the Munich Residenz can now be seen at the Bayerisches National Museum of Munich.

It is illustrated by Katharina Hantschmann and Alfred Ziffer, Franz Anton Bustelli, Nymphenburger Porzelannfiguren des Rokoko, 2005, pp. 108-109.