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Lot 11*

A Vienna figure of a woman with flower basket, circa 1744-49

3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Vienna figure of a woman with flower basket, circa 1744-49

Wearing a yellow-edged puce skirt and white, flower-edged jacket, yellow apron and a puce hat with flower sprig, carrying a basket of flowers in her right hand, 15cm high, impressed shield mark and R, red-painted MAK inventory number Ke 7521.28972 (minor chips to applied flowers in basket, chip to left toe and left sleeve at elbow, small chip to edge of dress)

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 May 1939 (inv. no. Ke7521);
Restituted to Heinrich Rothberger's niece, Mrs Bertha Gutmann, in 2003;
Thence by descent

Literature:
R.M. Vetter, Old Vienna Porcelain, in Antiques 2 (1949), p. 112, ill. 8;
W. Mrazek/W. Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864 (n.d. - 1970), no. 324;
W. Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864, exhibition catalogue (1982), no. 226;
C. Gschiel/U. Nimeth/L. Weidinger (eds.), Schneidern und Sammeln. Die Wiener Famile Rothberger, Schriftenreihe der Kommission für Provenienzforschung, vol. 2 (2010), pp. 107-108 (illustrated)

Exhibited:
East Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum Schloss Köpenick, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864, May-October 1982

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