Live Auction 16270The Collector: English and European 18th and 19th Century Furniture, Ceramics, Silver & Works of Art
A NYMPHENBURG PORCELAIN CRUCIFIXION GROUP
Lot 292 Ceramics from the Collection of Marjorie West

A NYMPHENBURG PORCELAIN CRUCIFIXION GROUP

CIRCA 1755-60, MATER DOLOROSA WITH IMPRESSED BAVARIAN SHIELD MARK, MODELLED BY F.A. BUSTELLI

Closed23 October 2018

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A NYMPHENBURG PORCELAIN CRUCIFIXION GROUP
CIRCA 1755-60, MATER DOLOROSA WITH IMPRESSED BAVARIAN SHIELD MARK, MODELLED BY F.A. BUSTELLI
Comprising: a figure of Mater dolorosa heavily draped in robes, looking up at a figure of Christ (Kleines Kruzifix) later mounted on an ebonized wood cross, below a later scroll impressed INRI
20 in. (50.8 cm.) high, overall

Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 2 July 1956, lot 63 and 64.
With the Antique Porcelain Company, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's New York, 8 October 1985, lot 358.

Specialist note

For a pair of these figures in the Bäuml Collection, see A. Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan, Stuttgart, 1997, nos. 47 & 48, p. 38.