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A Berlin documentary group of a nymph feeding a goat
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A Berlin documentary group of a nymph feeding a goat

CIRCA 1775, UNDERGLAZE BLUE SCEPTRE MARK, INCISED C.M. TO INTERIOR, INCISED W TO FOOTRIM

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A Berlin documentary group of a nymph feeding a goat
Circa 1775, underglaze blue sceptre mark, incised C.M. to interior, incised W to footrim
Modelled by Christian Wilhelm Meyer, with a scantily clad nymph in a white blue-spotted bonnet and a puce-spotted pink robe over her back and loins, seated on a tree-stump and feeding a goat with a garland of vine draped over her lap, on a shaped oval mound base edged with rococo scrolls enriched with gilding and puce enamel (minute chip to tip of a leaf, minute chip to goat's left ear, slight wear to gilding)
7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) high
Provenance
Rohloff Collection no. 198 82
Literature
Erich Köllmann and Margarete Jarchow, op. cit. (Munich 1987), Vol. II, p. 373, pl. 179.
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Lot Essay

This figure is from a series of five mythological figures of bacchants and bacchantes. Three other figures from the series, all in the Kunstgewerbemuseum SMPK Berlin, are illustrated by Erich Köllmann and Margarete Jarchow, ibid., Vol. II, figs. 177, 178 and 180. For other examples see Georg Lenz, op. cit. (n.d.), Vol. II, pl. 109.

The goat is emblematic of lust.

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