CIRCA 1755, BLUE W MARK

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A BERLIN (WEGELY) EQUESTRIAN GROUP
CIRCA 1755, BLUE W MARK
Modelled with an officer on horseback, the officer wearing a gilt-edged blue and red uniform, black tricorn hat and black boots with spurs, his left hand holding the reins, the green saddle-cloth edged with gilt tassels, two pistols in pouches before him, the white horse's coat with brown patches, on a tree-stump support and mound base with incised green and yellow patches (small repairs to thumbs, three right fingers, reins, sword hilt, horse's front legs restored, shallow chip to underside of base, minute chip to right cuff, silvered stirrups oxidised)
6 5/8 in. (16.9 cm.) high

Provenance

Anon., sale Nagel, 5-7th June 1972, lot 256 (pl. 6).

Literature

Gisela Zick, Berliner Porzellan, der Manufaktur von Wilhelm Caspar Wegely 1751-1757 (Berlin, 1978), no. 47c.

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Lot Essay

This appears to be the only known example of this rare model in private hands. Zick, ibid., pp. 173-174 lists the other two known examples; one example, formerly in the Max von Goldschmidt-Rothschild Collection, is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and is illustrated on p. 174, the other, formerly in the Schöller Collection, Berlin, was destroyed during the war, Berlin (Inv. Nr. FB 1893).

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