A NYMPHENBURG FIGURE OF DONNA MARTINA
A NYMPHENBURG FIGURE OF DONNA MARTINA

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1770, IMPRESSED P / BAVARIAN SHIELD / MARK, THE DECORATION PROBABLY LATER

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A NYMPHENBURG FIGURE OF DONNA MARTINA
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1770, IMPRESSED P / BAVARIAN SHIELD / MARK, THE DECORATION PROBABLY LATER
Modelled by Franz Anton Bustelli, wearing a black cape and a gilt-edged pink skirt
7 ¾ in. (19.8 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Donna Martina belongs to a series of sixteen comedy figures which was first mentioned in the Nymphenburg factory's inventory of moulds of 1760. Another example of Donna Martina with very similar colouring is illustrated by C.H. Beck, Bustelli, Nymphenburger Porzellanfiguren des Rokoko, Munich, 2004, no. 150, p. 292 and p. 477. An XRF test conducted (in 2017) by Cranfield University was inconclusive as to the dating of the decoration on this figure.

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