CIRCA 1755, BLUE W MARK AT BACK OF BASE, IMPRESSED 00 (?) 10

Details

A BERLIN (WEGELY) FIGURE OF CUPID IN DISGUISE AS A LADY
CIRCA 1755, BLUE W MARK AT BACK OF BASE, IMPRESSED 00 (?) 10
Holding a fan in his left hand and a posy in his right hand, wearing a white bonnet and puce bodice, his layered skirt with turquoise, yellow and white frills and open at the back revealing his bottom, a posy tucked into the décolté, standing barefoot before a tree-stump on a rocaille-moulded mound base enriched in gilding (restoration to wings, left hand, sleeves, right little finger and hem of skirt, fan a replacement, minute chipping to ribbons, flowers, right sleeve, tree-stump, small chip to edge of base)
3¾ in. (9.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, sale Sotheby's London, 10th October 1961, lot 598, part (£85 to Chester)
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.

Literature

Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), p. 179, no. 268.
Gisela Zick, Berliner Porzellan, der Manufaktur von Wilhelm Caspar Wegely 1751-1757 (Berlin, 1978), p. 194.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

Another example of this figure from the Blohm Collection, holding a needlecase and a fan, is illustrated by Schmidt, ibid., pl. 72, no. 267 (later sold by Sotheby's on 10th October 1961 as lot 597 [part]). Another known example in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (Traugott Collection) is illustrated by G. Zick, ibid, p. 194, no. 107.

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