AN ANSBACH WHITE PORCELAIN CANE HANDLE

CIRCA 1770

Details

AN ANSBACH WHITE PORCELAIN CANE HANDLE
Circa 1770
Modeled as a mermaid nursing a baby dolphin, her scaled tail extending backwards and scrolling into the handle
4 in. (10.2 cm.) long

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 15 June 1994, lot 72.

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Lot Essay

Titled stocknopf mit Meenweibchen, the present model is listed in the factory's second lottery of 1770. See Adolf Bayer, Ansbacher Porzellan, Brunswick, 1959, Abb. 39 for the example in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich.

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