A Nymphenburg bust emblematic of Summer
Circa 1757, impressed shield mark
Modelled by F.A. Bustelli as a young girl looking to her right, wearing a green hat and flowers in her hair, a white chemise, a pale green-lined red robe wrapped around her right shoulder and over her left shoulder and chest, a sheaf of wheat and a sickle tucked in the robe at her right side, on a waisted wide circular socle with a moulded step, the front centred with an impressed gilt-edged Bavarian shield surrounded by moulded puce and gilt scrolls, the edge of the socle with a gilt line border (flaking to green enamel of hat, some wear to gilding, minute chip to lining of robe near sickle, minute areas of wear to red enamel)
5¾ in. (14.5 cm.) high
A Nymphenburg bust emblematic of Summer
Circa 1757, impressed shield mark
Modelled by F.A. Bustelli as a young girl looking to her right, wearing a green hat and flowers in her hair, a white chemise, a pale green-lined red robe wrapped around her right shoulder and over her left shoulder and chest, a sheaf of wheat and a sickle tucked in the robe at her right side, on a waisted wide circular socle with a moulded step, the front centred with an impressed gilt-edged Bavarian shield surrounded by moulded puce and gilt scrolls, the edge of the socle with a gilt line border (flaking to green enamel of hat, some wear to gilding, minute chip to lining of robe near sickle, minute areas of wear to red enamel)
5¾ in. (14.5 cm.) high
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