A PAIR OF NYMPHENBURG WHITE BUSTS OF CHILDREN

CIRCA 1761-65, IMPRESSED SHIELD MARKS, INCISED LINE MARK TO BOTH

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A PAIR OF NYMPHENBURG WHITE BUSTS OF CHILDREN
CIRCA 1761-65, IMPRESSED SHIELD MARKS, INCISED LINE MARK TO BOTH
Modelled by Franz Anton Bustelli, the boy with his hair tied at the nape of his neck with a bow, wearing a loose ruffled shirt, his female companion with a ribbon and rosebud in her hair, each on a waisted quatrefoil rocaille-moulded socle base pierced with three apertures (the boy with restoration to base, chips to bow in hair and some small restored chips to shirt and lower edge of bust, the girl with restoration to shoulders, chest and ruffle, rosebud restored, minor chipping)
10 in. (25.3 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

See C.H. Beck, Franz Anton Bustelli, Nymphenburger Porzellanfiguren des Rokoko das Gesamtwerk, Exhibition Catalogue, Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, Munich, 24 November 2004 - 13 March 2005, Munich, 2004, pp. 334-335, nos. 186 and 188 (enamelled examples) and nos. 185 and 187 (white examples). Another example of the boy in the white is in the Bäuml Collection, see Alfred Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan, Sammlung Bäuml, Stuttgart, 1997, p. 9. An enamelled bust of the girl is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, no. C.30-1933.

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