CIRCA 1760-63

Details

A Nymphenburg white figure of Ottavio from the Commedia dell'Arte Series
Circa 1760-63
Modelled by Franz Anton Bustelli, leaning forward slightly with his head turned to the left and his right hand raised to his mouth in a cheeky pose, his hair en queue, finely dressed in a frock-coat, waistcoat, breeches and buckled shoes, his left hand in his pocket and a tricorn hat tucked under his left arm, standing with his left foot infront of his right before a scroll-moulded support sweeping down to a shaped flat base at the front edged with scrolls (right thumb lacking, large firing crack to support and slight one to left shoulder, frock-coat with chip to edge near left corner and three further minute chips, chip to edge of base near feet, chipping to underside of base)
7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Rüttgers Collection, Munich, sale Helbing Munich, 25th 26th October 1927, lot 73, fig. 5
Kaumheimer Collection
Museo Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento, inv. M.N. n. 509.

Literature

Alfred Ziffer, 1991, p. 72, no. 35 (where this example is dated as circa 1765).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A coloured example of circa 1760 is in the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, USA (cat. 131) and is illustrated by Meredith Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked, The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculture (2001), p. 89. For the coloured example of similar date in the Bäuml Collection, see Alfred Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan, Sammlung Bäuml, Schloss Nymphenburg Catalogue, Munich (Stuttgart, 1997), p. 64, no. 99.

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