A BADEN-BADEN WHITE BUST OF A LADY , CIRCA 1778, BLUE CROWNED SHIELD MARK, INCISED 3FX MARK | Christie's

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European Ceramics and Glass Including the Property of a Collector

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31 March 2008

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Lot 136

A BADEN-BADEN WHITE BUST OF A LADY

CIRCA 1778, BLUE CROWNED SHIELD MARK, INCISED 3FX MARK

Price realised

GBP 3,250

Estimate

GBP 800 - GBP 1,200

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A BADEN-BADEN WHITE BUST OF A LADY
CIRCA 1778, BLUE CROWNED SHIELD MARK, INCISED 3FX MARK
Modelled three-quarter-length with truncated arms, looking slightly to her left, her curled hair falling about her shoulders before a draped robe, a stylised dolphin wrapped around her waist, on a socle base (shallow chip to side of socle adjacent to footrim, further chipping and fritting to edge of footrim)
3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm) high
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Literature and exhibited

Literature

Cf. René Simmermacher, Gebrauchskeramik in Südbaden, Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, 7th July - 30th November 2002 Exhibition Catalogue, (Karlsruhe, 2002), pl. 21.

Hans-Jürgen Flamm, 'Baden-Baden Porzellan', Weltkunst, June 2003, no. 6, p. 877, pl. 9, where the present lot is illustrated with her male companion.

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