Lot 466
466
A German bronze figure of a footballer, cast from a model by Franz Iffland, the figure wearing a vest about to kick a football with his right foot, on oval naturalistic base, inscribed F. Iffland and bearing Berlin foundry marks, with octagonal black variegated marble plinth, late 19th/early 20th Century, 11in. (28cm) high, overall
A German bronze figure of a footballer, cast from a model by Franz Iffland, the figure wearing a vest about to kick a football with his right foot, on oval naturalistic base, inscribed F. Iffland and bearing Berlin foundry marks, with octagonal black variegated marble plinth, late 19th/early 20th Century, 11in. (28cm) high, overall

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A German bronze figure of a footballer, cast from a model by Franz Iffland, the figure wearing a vest about to kick a football with his right foot, on oval naturalistic base, inscribed F. Iffland and bearing Berlin foundry marks, with octagonal black variegated marble plinth, late 19th/early 20th Century, 11in. (28cm) high, overall

Lot Essay

Franz Iffland is recorded as working in Berlin in the late 19th Century and exhibited at the Berlin Academy and the Great Exhibitions of the 1890s. He specialised in bronze statuettes inspired by classical and Teutonic mythology as well as genre groups and busts.

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