Lot Essay
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1710-1720, PROBABLY GILT IN AUGSBURG, WITH FAINT LUSTRE GILDER'S MARKS, ONE WITH B OR R AND ONE WITH Z
Details
A pair of Böttger small pagoda figures
1710-1720, PROBABLY GILT IN AUGSBURG, WITH FAINT LUSTRE GILDER'S MARKS, ONE WITH B OR R AND ONE WITH Z
Modelled as hollow cross-legged seated Orientals, their left hand upon their high left knee, their right hand beside their right leg, their stretched head with patches of hair behind the ears, their sneering opened mouths with tiny teeth, their ears pierced with tiny openings, their flowing garment with gilt star motifs displaying the gilt nude shoulders, breast and belly (both with chipped toes to their frontal foot and some rubbing to the gilt)
Circa 9.5 cm. high (2)
1710-1720, PROBABLY GILT IN AUGSBURG, WITH FAINT LUSTRE GILDER'S MARKS, ONE WITH B OR R AND ONE WITH Z
Modelled as hollow cross-legged seated Orientals, their left hand upon their high left knee, their right hand beside their right leg, their stretched head with patches of hair behind the ears, their sneering opened mouths with tiny teeth, their ears pierced with tiny openings, their flowing garment with gilt star motifs displaying the gilt nude shoulders, breast and belly (both with chipped toes to their frontal foot and some rubbing to the gilt)
Circa 9.5 cm. high (2)
Exhibited
On loan to the Huelsmann Museum, Bielefeld, till January 2007.
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Further details
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Sale room notice
Please note that in additional to the condition mentioned in the catalogue description one figure has a chip (ca. 1 cm. wide) to the lower rim of his left sleeve.