Lot Essay
See Zick, ibid., p. 193, no. 106a for a similar example from the Bröhan Collection, also impressed 1 90 36, and three other known examples listed as Kat. Nos. 106 b-d.
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CIRCA 1755, BLUE W AT BACK OF BASE, IMPRESSED 1 90 36
Details
A BERLIN (WEGELY) FIGURE OF CUPID IN DISGUISE AS A FLOWER-SELLER
CIRCA 1755, BLUE W AT BACK OF BASE, IMPRESSED 1 90 36
Carrying a two-handled brown vessel balanced on his head, wearing an open yellow jacket, puce skirt and black shoes, steadying the pot with his right hand and carrying a basket of tulips over his left arm, standing before a tree-stump on a rocaille-moulded circular mound base enriched in gilding (minute chipping to tulips and left thumb, slight wear to gilding, slight chipping to edge of base)
4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm.) high
CIRCA 1755, BLUE W AT BACK OF BASE, IMPRESSED 1 90 36
Carrying a two-handled brown vessel balanced on his head, wearing an open yellow jacket, puce skirt and black shoes, steadying the pot with his right hand and carrying a basket of tulips over his left arm, standing before a tree-stump on a rocaille-moulded circular mound base enriched in gilding (minute chipping to tulips and left thumb, slight wear to gilding, slight chipping to edge of base)
4 3/8 in. (11.1 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. 180 and col. pl. 72, no. 273.
Gisela Zick, Berliner Porzellan, der Manufaktur von Wilhelm Caspar Wegely 1751-1757 (Berlin, 1978), p. 193.
Gisela Zick, Berliner Porzellan, der Manufaktur von Wilhelm Caspar Wegely 1751-1757 (Berlin, 1978), p. 193.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.