Lot 46
46
A NYMPHENBURG GROUP OF 'DER LAUSCHER AM BRUNNEN'
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A NYMPHENBURG GROUP OF 'DER LAUSCHER AM BRUNNEN'

LATE 18TH CENTURY, IMPRESSED SHIELD MARK, INCISED 43

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A NYMPHENBURG GROUP OF 'DER LAUSCHER AM BRUNNEN'
LATE 18TH CENTURY, IMPRESSED SHIELD MARK, INCISED 43
After the model by Franz Anton Bustelli, with a reclining youth in a striped lilac jacket, blue hose and lilac breeches peeping round a rococo fountain at a girl washing, his companion in an iron-red bodice and skirt with blue rosettes, on a grasswork base with a puce and gilt scroll (putto lacking from top of fountain, his legs, her right wrist, top of fountain and part of base restored, some slight repairs and chipping to extremities)
6¾ in. (17 cm.) high
Provenance
Dr. Andreina Torre, and thence by descent.
Literature
Alfred Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan, Sammlung Bäuml, Schloss Nymphenburg, Munich, Museum Catalogue (Stuttgart, 1997), p. 48, where the present group is mentioned in the note for no. 64.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

See Alfred Ziffer, Ibid., p. 47, no. 64 for a similar example in the white, and where his list of other known examples shows how few coloured examples of this model exist. Another coloured example of this group was sold in these Rooms on 28 March 1977, lot 173.

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