6 Jul 2010
14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street
Fine European Ceramics including the Collezione Procida Mirabelli di Lauro
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Fine European Ceramics including the Collezione Procida Mirabelli di Lauro
Back to auction 17812
A rare Meissen pagoda figure
Circa 1720-25
After a Chinese example, seated with his right hand resting on his raised knee, wearing a gilt-edged robe, with dark brown hair, moustache and eyebrows and red lips, 9.5cm high (right hand restored, nose chipped)
After a Chinese example, seated with his right hand resting on his raised knee, wearing a gilt-edged robe, with dark brown hair, moustache and eyebrows and red lips, 9.5cm high (right hand restored, nose chipped)
Sold for
£8,400
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Leonard Morgan May Collection, sold Sotheby's London, 5 March 1985, lot 193
Johann Friedrich Böttger borrowed eight white Chinese figures in 1709, including the present model, which were formed in stoneware and later in porcelain (Pietsch 1996, p. 21, and ill. 1 for two Böttger stoneware examples).
Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics
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