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A Vienna figure of a huntress, circa 1744-49 image 1

Lot 14^*

A Vienna figure of a huntress, circa 1744-49

Fine European Ceramics Including the Heinrich Rothberger Collection

3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT

London, New Bond Street

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A Vienna figure of a huntress, circa 1744-49

Holding a rifle in her right hand and a dead bird in the left, wearing a yellow and blue hunting costume with silvered edges, 15.5cm high, incised 4, red-painted MAK inventory number Ke 7552.28974 (face and head restored with some visible cracks, rifle chipped, some losses to ribbons, some restoration to front of dress at right toe)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Heinrich Rothberger Collection, Vienna;
Confiscated by Vienna municipal authorities in November 1938;
Acquired by the Staatliches Kunstgewerbemuseum (later Museum für Angewandte Kunst), Vienna, in May 1939 (inv. no. Ke 7522);
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. 323

Other examples of this figure are in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna (Mrazek/Neuwirth, no. 322, formerly in the Karl Mayer Collection); the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (inv. no. C.67-1939); and published in H. Kräftner (pub.), Zeremonien Feste Kostüme. Die Wiener Porzellanfigur in der Regierungszeit Maria Theresias (2010), no. 114.

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