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A Vienna figure of a man seated at a writing desk, circa 1744-49
3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
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A Vienna figure of a man seated at a writing desk, circa 1744-49
After the Meissen model, seated on a stool covered in green fabric and holding a pen with a letter on the desk inscribed: Ce que je n'ose vous dire ne pouvoir je pas vous l'écrire. (that which I don't dare to tell you, I will try and write to you), wearing a puce jacket, yellow waistcoat and black breeches, the desk legs heightened in blue, on a rectangular flat base, 15cm high, impressed shield mark and i to rear of base, red-painted MAK inventory number Ke 7765.29430, faint collectors marks in black ink (pen and seal on desk chipped, gilding worn)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Heinrich Rothberger Collection, Vienna;
Confiscated by the Vienna municipal authorities in November 1938;
Acquired by the Staatliches Kunstgewerbemuseum (later Museum für Angewandte Kunst), Vienna, in October 1940 (inv. no. Ke 7765);
Restituted to Heinrich Rothberger's niece, Mrs Bertha Gutmann, in 2003;
Thence by descent
Literature:
W. Mrazek/W. Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864 (n.d. - 1970), no. 339;
W. Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864, exhibition catalogue (1982), no.243
Exhibited:
East Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum Schloss Köpenick, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864, May-October 1982