A BÖTTGER WHITE BUST OF AN INFANT modelled by Paul Heermann with his head turned to his left and with curls around the hairline (restored chip to edge of left shoulder approximately 3.5cm. x 1.5cm., haircrack to back, slight rubbing to nose), incised U, circa 1719

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A BÖTTGER WHITE BUST OF AN INFANT modelled by Paul Heermann with his head turned to his left and with curls around the hairline (restored chip to edge of left shoulder approximately 3.5cm. x 1.5cm., haircrack to back, slight rubbing to nose), incised U, circa 1719
13cm. high
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Cf. Willi Goder et al., Johann Friedrich Böttger die Erfindung des Europäischen Porzellans, no. 147 and 148 for a red stoneware example and a coloured porcelain example respectively. This bust was first modelled in red stoneware in 1711 and is mentioned in the inventory for that year as Kinder-Köpffee; see also Rainer Rückert, op. cit. for a stoneware example; and Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental porcelain Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collectio, pl. 58, fig. 83 for a coloured example and a wax model

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