Live Auction 14963THE COLLECTOR: English and European Furniture, Works of Art & Ceramics & Silver
A NYMPHENBURG PORCELAIN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE WHITE-GLAZED FIGURE OF IL DOTTORE
Lot 788 The West Collection

A NYMPHENBURG PORCELAIN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE WHITE-GLAZED FIGURE OF IL DOTTORE

CIRCA 1765, IMPRESSED BAVARIAN SHIELD, P AND CYPHER, AFTER THE MODEL BY F.A. BUSTELLI

Closed18 October 2017

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A NYMPHENBURG PORCELAIN COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE WHITE-GLAZED FIGURE OF IL DOTTORE
CIRCA 1765, IMPRESSED BAVARIAN SHIELD, P AND CYPHER, AFTER THE MODEL BY F.A. BUSTELLI
Pointing with his right hand to his forehead, in wide brimmed hat standing on a rocaille scroll molded base
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high

Edmund W. Mudge, Jr.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 8 October 1985, lot 360.

Specialist note

See the colored example of Il Dottore which was sold Christie's, London, 28 March, 1977, lot 159, and again at Christie's, New York, 21 November, 1980, lot 364, now in the George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto. A colored example is also illustrated in A. Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan, Sammlung Bäuml, Stuttgart, 1997, p. 65, no. 101.