Lot Essay
Examples of this figure with polychrome decoration from Bustelli's lifetime are rare.
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CIRCA 1755-60, INCISED 8
Details
A Nymphenburg figure of a putto in disguise as Mars
Circa 1755-60, incised 8
Modelled by F.A. Bustelli, in an agressive pose with his sword drawn and holding a circular shield, looking to his his left wearing a brightly plumed blue helmet with a gilt visor, his blue breastplate with a gilt panel moulded with a fleur-de-lys, wearing high black boots and a brown-striped yellow sash loosely wrapped about his waist and falling to the ground, a scabbard suspended at his left hip, on a shaped flat mound base strewn with silvered cannon balls about his feet, incised and applied with tufts of grass and edged with sweeping gilt scrolls (broken through below knees and restored, shield restuck, sword blade and scabbard a replacement, small chip to edge of base and inside edge of shield)
4 in. (10.3 cm.) high
Circa 1755-60, incised 8
Modelled by F.A. Bustelli, in an agressive pose with his sword drawn and holding a circular shield, looking to his his left wearing a brightly plumed blue helmet with a gilt visor, his blue breastplate with a gilt panel moulded with a fleur-de-lys, wearing high black boots and a brown-striped yellow sash loosely wrapped about his waist and falling to the ground, a scabbard suspended at his left hip, on a shaped flat mound base strewn with silvered cannon balls about his feet, incised and applied with tufts of grass and edged with sweeping gilt scrolls (broken through below knees and restored, shield restuck, sword blade and scabbard a replacement, small chip to edge of base and inside edge of shield)
4 in. (10.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Museo Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento, inv. M.N. n. 511.
Literature
Alfred Ziffer, 1991, p. 45, no. 18.
Special notice
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