STYLE: European Silver, Gold Boxes and Ceramics
STYLE: European Silver, Gold Boxes and Ceramics
A BERLIN (WEGLEY) WHITE COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE GROUP AND A FIGURE OF A GIRL, BOTH CIRCA 1755
Auction Closed
November 11, 04:08 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A BERLIN (WEGLEY) WHITE COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE GROUP AND A FIGURE OF A GIRL, BOTH CIRCA 1755
after a Meissen model by J. J. Kaendler, as a Scaramouche and Columbine, in an embrace, she holds a bird cage, underglazed blue W mark and Pressnummern 2/90/40; the figure of a girl with a bird cage, after a Vincennes model by Falconet after Boucher, underglaze blue W mark to edge of base, Pressnummern 1/66/27
17.2 cm. high, the first; 22 cm. high, the second
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See Gisela Zick, Berliner Porzellan der Manufaktur von Wilhelm Caspar Wegley 1751-1757, Berlin, 1978, pp. 161-163 and 174-175, kat. nr. 35 and 48, for a list of related examples of these models and pp. 78-85 for a discussion of the origina of both models.