Lot Essay
See G. Zick, ibid., pp. 204-5, no. 122a for another example in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (Traugott Collection), and where she cites two other known examples as Kat nos. 122 b and c.
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CIRCA 1755, BLUE W MARK AT BACK OF BASE, INCISED 41 (?)
Details
A BERLIN (WEGELY) FIGURE OF CUPID IN DISGUISE AS A COOK
CIRCA 1755, BLUE W MARK AT BACK OF BASE, INCISED 41 (?)
Scantily clad in a white apron losely tied around his waist, a knife tucked under it at his left hip, wearing a white cap with horizontal purple stripes, holding a large frying-pan over a brazier at his feet, on a rocaille-moulded circular mound base enriched in gilding (majority of left little finger lacking, small chip to edge of base, very slight wear to gilding)
3¾ in. (9.7 cm.) high
CIRCA 1755, BLUE W MARK AT BACK OF BASE, INCISED 41 (?)
Scantily clad in a white apron losely tied around his waist, a knife tucked under it at his left hip, wearing a white cap with horizontal purple stripes, holding a large frying-pan over a brazier at his feet, on a rocaille-moulded circular mound base enriched in gilding (majority of left little finger lacking, small chip to edge of base, very slight wear to gilding)
3¾ in. (9.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, sale Sotheby's London, 10th October 1961, lot 600, part (£150 to Chester)
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.
Literature
Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), p. 177, no. 260 and col. pl. 260.
Gisela Zick, Berliner Porzellan, der Manufaktur von Wilhelm Caspar Wegely 1751-1757 (Berlin, 1978), p. 205.
Gisela Zick, Berliner Porzellan, der Manufaktur von Wilhelm Caspar Wegely 1751-1757 (Berlin, 1978), p. 205.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.