CIRCA 1765, REVERSE OF LOIN-CLOTH WITH IMPRESSED BAVARIAN SHIELD MARK AND INDISTINCT INCISED MARK

Details

A Nymphenburg white Corpus Christi
Circa 1765, reverse of loin-cloth with impressed Bavarian shield mark and indistinct incised mark
Modelled after F.A. Bustelli, the crucified Christ with his arms up-stretched, his wrists pierced for nails, his bearded head sagging down and crowned with thorns, his right side with the spear-wound, his loins loosely covered with a cloth tied with a rope, his feet together and pierced for nails (both arms restuck, chipping to crown and rope, minute chipping around apertures through feet)
8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm.) long

Provenance

Museo Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento, inv. M.N. n. 510.

Literature

Alfred Ziffer, 1991, pp. 68-69, no. 33.

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Lot Essay

First modelled by Bustelli in 1759, the present example dates from shortly after his death. See the similar example in the Bäuml Collection illustrated by A. Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan, Sammlung Bäuml, Schloss Nymphenburg Catalogue, Munich (Stuttgart, 1997), p. 38, no. 47. Also see Friedrich Hofmann, Geschichte der Porzellan-Manufaktur Nymphenburg (Leipzig, 1923), Vol. I. p. 133 for a complete, cased Kreuzigungsgruppe.

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