Lot 293
293
A NYMPHENBURG GROUP OF 'THE SLEEPER DISTURBED' (DER GESTORTE SCHLAFER)
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A NYMPHENBURG GROUP OF 'THE SLEEPER DISTURBED' (DER GESTORTE SCHLAFER)

CIRCA 1765-70, IMPRESSED SHIELD MARK TO THE TOP OF THE OBELISK

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A NYMPHENBURG GROUP OF 'THE SLEEPER DISTURBED' (DER GESTORTE SCHLAFER)
CIRCA 1765-70, IMPRESSED SHIELD MARK TO THE TOP OF THE OBELISK
After a model by Franz Anton Bustelli with a farm boy asleep, arms folded, resting on a series of C-scrolls, a hound recumbent at his feet, beside him a farm girl playing a xylophone to one side, before a knarled tree-trunk and obelisk on a mound base moulded with scrolls, cracked through base and restored, some other areas of damage and restoration
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired from Röbbig of Munich.
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Lot Essay

See also an undecorated example in the Bauml Collection, illustrated by Alfred Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan Sammlung Bauml, Munich, Catalogue Stuttgart, 1997, p. 49, no. 68. Another coloured example of this group is illustrated by Friedrich Hofmann, Geschichte der Porzellan-Manufaktur Nymphenburg Leipzig, 1923, Vol. II, col. pl. 11.

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