Live Auction 14963THE COLLECTOR: English and European Furniture, Works of Art & Ceramics & Silver
A NYMPHENBURG PORCELAIN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE WHITE-GLAZED FIGURE OF CAPITANO SPAVENTO
Lot 786 The West Collection

A NYMPHENBURG PORCELAIN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE WHITE-GLAZED FIGURE OF CAPITANO SPAVENTO

CIRCA 1765, IMPRESSED BAVARIAN SHIELD MARK TO THE SIDE, IMPRESSED CYPHER TO THE UNDERSIDE, AFTER THE MODEL BY F.A. BUSTELLI

Closed18 October 2017

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A NYMPHENBURG PORCELAIN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE WHITE-GLAZED FIGURE OF CAPITANO SPAVENTO
CIRCA 1765, IMPRESSED BAVARIAN SHIELD MARK TO THE SIDE, IMPRESSED CYPHER TO THE UNDERSIDE, AFTER THE MODEL BY F.A. BUSTELLI
Dramatically posed gripping his plumed hat with his left hand and holding a dagger in his right, on rocaille scroll molded base
7 ¾ in. (19.7 cm.) high

With Edmund W. Mudge, Jr.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 8 October 1985, lot 359.

Specialist note

For a similar example, see A. Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan, Sammlung Bäuml, Stuttgart, 1997, p. 61, no. 92.