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Lot 213

A pair of Nymphenburg porcelain allegorical white figures of putti from the Ovidian Gods Series,...

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Lot 213

A pair of Nymphenburg porcelain allegorical white figures of putti from the Ovidian Gods Series,...

Price Realised: £6,500

Estimate: £1,200 - £1,800

Price realised is hammer price plus fees (30% Buyers Premium inclusive of VAT).

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Lot 213

Description

A pair of Nymphenburg porcelain allegorical white figures of putti from the Ovidian Gods Series, c.1755-60, modelled by Franz Anton Bustelli, each scantily clad, Saturn striding forward with a displaced billowing cloak, an hour-glass at his feet and his foot on an open history book, Pandora holding a box, on rococo grassy mound bases, 10.2cm high and 9.9cm high (2)

Provenance: The Robert G. Vater Collection of European Ceramics.

Note: The Ovidian Gods Series was modelled from 1754 and was probably made in two groups. Modern scholars have identified 23 figures in the series, although the 1760 inventory of forms at Nymphenburg records that it consisted of 26 small figures of deities, see Alfred Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan, Sammlung Bäuml, Stuttgart, 1997, p. 23. A similar undecorated figure of Pandora in Gewerbemuseum im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, is illustrated by Katharina Hantschmann and Alfred Ziffer, Franz Anton Bustelli, Nymphenburger Porzellanfiguren des Rokoko, Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, 2004 2005 Exhibition Catalogue, Munich, 2004, p. 139, no. 40, and p. 422, where other examples of this rare figure are cited; and two figures of Saturn are illustrated p. 146, nos. 42 (decorated) and 43 (undecorated, and where he has a scythe, but not an hour-glass), and pp. 423-424, where other examples are cited.

Photographs: © Christie's Images

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