CIRCA 1755, BLUE W MARK TO BACK OF BASE, IMPRESSED 1 90 26

Details

A BERLIN (WEGELY) FIGURE OF CUPID IN DISGUISE
CIRCA 1755, BLUE W MARK TO BACK OF BASE, IMPRESSED 1 90 26
Wearing a large black tricorn hat tipped to the back of his head, a purple coat with two gilt buttons and black shoes, with a yellow strap over his right shoulder, holding a stick in his left hand and a gilt bracelet with a heart in his right hand, standing blindfolded on a rocaille-moulded mound base enriched in gilding (minute flaking to black and brown enamels)
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, sale Sotheby's London, 10th October 1961, lot 603 (£150 to Chester)
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.

Literature

Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), pp. 177-8, no. 262 and col. pl. 71.
Gisela Zick, Berliner Porzellan, der Manufaktur von Wilhelm Caspar Wegely 1751-1757 (Berlin, 1978), p. 192.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

See G. Zick, ibid., pp. 191-2, no. 104 a for another example in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (Traugott Collection no. 595), also impressed 1 90 26, and where three other similar examples are listed as Kat nos. 104 b-d. Another example from the Wadsack Collection was sold in these Rooms on 1st May 2002, lot 5. For the Meissen original from which this is derived, see the C.H. Fischer Collection, sale Heberle, Berlin 22nd-25th October 1906, no. 601. This figure most probably represents the blindness of love.

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