Live Auction 16270The Collector: English and European 18th and 19th Century Furniture, Ceramics, Silver & Works of Art
THREE NYMPHENBURG PORCELAIN BUSTS EMBLEMATIC OF SPRING, SUMMER AND WINTER
Lot 295 Ceramics from the Collection of Marjorie West

THREE NYMPHENBURG PORCELAIN BUSTS EMBLEMATIC OF SPRING, SUMMER AND WINTER

CIRCA 1760, EACH WITH IMPRESSED BAVARIAN SHIELD MARK ON A CARTOUCHE ON THE FRONT OF THE SOCLE, MODELED BY F.A. BUSTELLI

Closed23 October 2018

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THREE NYMPHENBURG PORCELAIN BUSTS EMBLEMATIC OF SPRING, SUMMER AND WINTER
CIRCA 1760, EACH WITH IMPRESSED BAVARIAN SHIELD MARK ON A CARTOUCHE ON THE FRONT OF THE SOCLE, MODELED BY F.A. BUSTELLI
Spring as a maiden with a flower-filled apron; Summer as a maiden with wheat and a scythe; Winter as a bearded man with a muff
5 7/8 in. high, the largest

Specialist note

Compare the four seasons in the Bayrisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, P.W. Meister and H. Reber, European Porcelain of the 18th Century, Oxford, 1983, p. 66, no. 70.