CIRCA 1760, IMPRESSED BAVARIAN SHIELD MARK

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A NYMPHENBURG WHITE FIGURE OF DONNA MARTINA FROM THE COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE SERIES
CIRCA 1760, IMPRESSED BAVARIAN SHIELD MARK
Modelled by Franz Anton Bustelli with her head turned to one side, wearing a short cape tied with ribbons and a flowing dress, cradling a wine bottle bound with string and holding a pleat of her dress in her other hand, standing on a flat base edged with sweeping scrolls and impressed with a factory mark at her feet (slight chipping to edge of base, very minor chipping to ribbons) on a later red velvet covered stepped base
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high

Provenance

With A. Torre, from whom it was acquired in 1974.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

The exceptional crispness of the modelling suggests that this example was an early cast from the moulds. The white example from the Kaumheimer Collection was sold in these Rooms on 8th December 2003, lot 52. For a coloured example in the Bäuml Collection, see Alfred Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan, Sammlung Bäuml, Schloss Nymphenburg Catalogue, Munich (Stuttgart, 1997), p. 65, no. 100 and another of slightly later date, p. 66, no. 102.

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