Lot 53
53
A BERLIN (WEGELY) FIGURE OF CUPID IN DISGUISE AS A SCHOLAR
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A BERLIN (WEGELY) FIGURE OF CUPID IN DISGUISE AS A SCHOLAR

CIRCA 1755, BLUE W MARK AT BACK OF BASE, IMPRESSED 1 90 6

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A BERLIN (WEGELY) FIGURE OF CUPID IN DISGUISE AS A SCHOLAR
CIRCA 1755, BLUE W MARK AT BACK OF BASE, IMPRESSED 1 90 6
Wearing a long powdered wig and a long black robe on his back, his chest bare except for a white jabot, black breeches and yellow shoes, holding a quill pen in his left hand and a scroll in the other, standing with two books at his feet on a rocaille-moulded mound base enriched in gilding (minute flaking to black enamel)
3¾ in. (9.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, sale Sotheby's London, 10th October 1961, lot 598, part (£85 to Chester)
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.
Literature
Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), p. 175, no. 250 and col. pl. 69.
Gisela Zick, Berliner Porzellan, der Manufaktur von Wilhelm Caspar Wegely 1751-1757 (Berlin, 1978), pp. 211-12.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

The base inscribed O.B. 510 in black ink.

See G. Zick, ibid., p. 211, where she cites two other known examples as Kat. nos. 131 a and b, both of which are impressed with the same numerals as the present lot.

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