A PAINTED OAK ALLEGORICAL GROUP

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A PAINTED OAK ALLEGORICAL GROUP
SOUTH GERMAN, POSSIBLY FRANCONIAN, MID 18TH CENTURY

Possibly depicting the Allegory of Love, the female figure standing in contraposto, wearing diadem, billowing drapery and snadels, a naked putto to her right-79in. (197.5cm.) high

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
H. Erdner and G. Nagel, Die Fayencefabrik zu Schrezheim 1752-1865, Schwabenverlag Ellwangen Jagst 1972

拍品專文

This monumental wood is comparable in treatmment of the body and drapery to a large white glazed faience statue (116.8cm.) by Johan Martel Mutschell c. 1771. This impressive figure of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception is now in The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.