Lot 157
157
TWO NYMPHENBURG WHITE FIGURES OF VULCAN AND MERCURY AS PUTTI
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more
TWO NYMPHENBURG WHITE FIGURES OF VULCAN AND MERCURY AS PUTTI

CIRCA 1765, IMPRESSED SHIELD MARK TO MOUND OF VULCAN AND UNDERSIDE OF EACH BASE

Details
TWO NYMPHENBURG WHITE FIGURES OF VULCAN AND MERCURY AS PUTTI
CIRCA 1765, IMPRESSED SHIELD MARK TO MOUND OF VULCAN AND UNDERSIDE OF EACH BASE
Each after a model by Franz Anton Bustelli, Vulcan modelled scantily draped in an apron and standing with his knee resting on a tree-stump forging an arrow on an anvil, a hammer and horse shoe at his feet, the mound base edged with scrolls, Mercury seated astride a tree-stump playing a flute, wearing a winged cap, with a caduceus at his feet, on a scroll-moulded base (some damages, restorations and overpainting)
4 3/8 in. (11.2 cm.) high (2)
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

These figures, and also Fortuna (see lot 155) were all part of a series of the Ovidian gods modelled by Bustelli between 1754 and 1763. For other examples in the Bäuml Collection, see Alfred Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan, Sammlung Bäuml, Schloss Nymphenburg Catalogue (Stuttgart, 1997), p. 24, no. 25 (for Mercury), and p. 28, no. 41 (for Vulcan). Also see the examples sold in these Rooms on 9th July 2001, lot 251 (part).

More from European Ceramics and Glass Including the Property of a Collector

View All
View All