Octavio from the Italian Comedy: C.1-1947

Titles

Octavio from the Italian Comedy

Maker(s)

Factory: Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory
Modeller: Bustelli, Franz Anton

Entities

• Figure

Categories

• Hard-paste porcelain

Description

Glazed hard-paste porcelain

Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and glazed except for the underside, which has a large circular ventilation hole at the back. The figure stands on a flat asymettrically shaped base rising up at the back into a support with a shallow S scroll on the viewer's right and a frilled C scroll on the left. Octavio stands on his left leg with his right leg advanced. He leans forward, tilting and turning his head towards his left, and has his right hand under the skirt of his waistcoat, and his left arm bent and the fingers of his left hand raised to his mouth. His hair is in a bag tied with a bow at the back. He wears a bow on the front of his neck, a shirt with ruffles at the wrists, a waistcoat with pockets on the flaps, coat, breeches and buckled shoes. He carries a tricorne hat under his left arm.

Notes

History note: Collection of Princess Liechtenstein, Schloss Judenburg, near Graz, Austria

Legal notes

Purchased with the Glaisher Fund

Place(s) associated

• Neudeck in der Au ⪼ Bavaria ⪼ Germany

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1947) by Backer, H.E.

Dating

18th Century, third quarter
Production date: circa AD 1760 : Modelled by 1760

Note

Modelled by Bustelli at Neudeck by 1760, and made there or after the factory moved to Nymphenburg in 1761

School or Style

Rococo