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A Berlin white biscuit bust of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm
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A Berlin white biscuit bust of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm

CIRCA 1797

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A Berlin white biscuit bust of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm
Circa 1797
Modelled by Riese after the original by Schadow, his hair tied en queue in high-collared jacket and wearing the Order of the Black Eagle, his shirt with a jabot, on a high cylindrical stand moulded round the base with a band of berried laurel (slight filling to cracks in hair, perhaps contemporary)
10 1/8 in. (26 cm.) high
Literature
Erich Köllmann and Margarete Jarchow, op. cit., (Munich 1987), Vol. I, fig. 33a.
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Lot Essay

Another example of this model is in the Schloss Fasanerie near Fulda.

Johann Carl Friedrich Riese (active at Berlin 1789-1834) was advised by the Court architect, Hans Christian Genelli, who worked almost exclusively in the classical style. Genelli brought the sculptor Gottfried Schadow to the factory, and biscuit porcelain models were produced under his direction after his sculptures of Frederick II, Frederick III, Crown Princess Louise and Princess Frederika.

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