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CIRCA 1712
Details
A Bttger red stoneware bust of Vitellius
Circa 1712
Perhaps modelled by Paul Heermann, half turned to the right and with incised hair (firing crack to his left shoulder and back of neck, section of his right shoulder restuck, slight chipping to edge of base)
4 in. (10.7 cm.) high
Circa 1712
Perhaps modelled by Paul Heermann, half turned to the right and with incised hair (firing crack to his left shoulder and back of neck, section of his right shoulder restuck, slight chipping to edge of base)
4 in. (10.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Korthaus Collection, sale Christie's London, 5 December 1994, lot 160.
Cf. Sonnemann & Wchter, Johann Friedrich Bttger (1982), no. 142 and Stefan Bursche, Meissen Steinzeug und Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin (1980), no. 26; for a full discussion of this model see Sigfried Asche 'Die Dresdner Bildhauer des Frhen Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts als Meister des Bttgersteinzeugs und des Bttgerporzellans', Keramos, 49/70, pp. 67-89. Also see the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden exhibition catalogue, op. cit. (1982), pl. 1/49.
Also see the similar example sold by Christie's New York on 23 April 1998, lot 2.
Cf. Sonnemann & Wchter, Johann Friedrich Bttger (1982), no. 142 and Stefan Bursche, Meissen Steinzeug und Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin (1980), no. 26; for a full discussion of this model see Sigfried Asche 'Die Dresdner Bildhauer des Frhen Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts als Meister des Bttgersteinzeugs und des Bttgerporzellans', Keramos, 49/70, pp. 67-89. Also see the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden exhibition catalogue, op. cit. (1982), pl. 1/49.
Also see the similar example sold by Christie's New York on 23 April 1998, lot 2.