A VIENNA BISCUIT PORTRAIT BUST OF A NOBLE GENTLEMAN

FIRST QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE BINDENSHIELD MARK TO THE UNDERSIDE OF THE SOCLE, ATTRIBUTED TO ELIAS HÜTTER

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A VIENNA BISCUIT PORTRAIT BUST OF A NOBLE GENTLEMAN
First quarter of the 19th century, blue Bindenshield mark to the underside of the socle, attributed to Elias Hütter
The young man truncated at the shoulders and chest, wearing tightly wrapped cravat, his fitted jacket with upright collar, a breast cross and the corresponding order suspended from a ribbon on the left side of his chest, on gilt-enriched faux-granite socle
18¼ in. (46.4 cm.) high

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See Shiela K. Tabakoff, Le Porcellane di Vienna a Palazzo Pitti, Florence, 2002, p. 179, no. 109 for a biscuit portrait bust of Albert Kasimir, Duke of Sachsen-Teschen in the collection of the Pitti Palace also Wilhelm Mrazek and Waltraud Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864, p. 158, nos. 573 and 576 for portraits of other noblemen, all modelled similarly to the present example and on similarly shaped socles.

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