The Ehlen Collection - Eine Rheinische Porzellansammlung
The Ehlen Collection - Eine Rheinische Porzellansammlung
A Pair of Nymphenburg White Incense-Burner Figures, Circa 1765 | Ein Paar weiße Nymphenburg figürliche Weihrauchbrenner, um 1765
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March 6, 02:41 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
modelled by Franz Anton Bustelli, as a male and female chinoiserie figure, seated cross-legged on a cushion, wearing loose robes, his peaked hat with small holes for incense, her hat with a central hole for incense, on a shaped pedestal base, impressed shield mark to front of both bases, he with incised 2 to underside of base
Height 4 in.
10.2 cm.
Horst Reber, Eine Rheinische Porzellan-Sammlung, Darmstadt, 2006, vol. I, p. 241
These chinoiserie incense-burner figures were first modelled by Bustelli in 1756. Other white examples are in the Porcelain Collection in Dresden (Inv. no. P.E. 4286, the female figure, and P.E. 4285, the male figure), and another white pair are in the Bäuml Collection, Munich, illustrated by Alfred Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan: Sammlung Bäuml, Stuttgart, 1997, p. 52, nos. 71 and 72. For a list of recorded examples see Katharina Hantschmann and Alfred Ziffer, Franz Anton Bustelli: Nymphenburger Porzellanfiguren des Rokoko, Munich, 2004, pp. 459, no. 114. and p. 460, no. 115.