Octavio from the Italian Comedy
Factory:
Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory
Modeller:
Bustelli, Franz Anton
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.
History note: Collection of Princess Liechtenstein, Schloss Judenburg, near Graz, Austria
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Depth: 10.2 cm
Height: 18.9 cm
Width: 8.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1947) by Backer, H.E.
18th Century, third quarter
Production date:
circa
AD 1760
: Modelled by 1760
Modelled by Bustelli at Neudeck by 1760, and made there or after the factory moved to Nymphenburg in 1761
Visible Surfaces
clear
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Press-moulding : Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and glazed
Inscription present: Rautenschild
Accession number: C.1-1947
Primary reference Number: 140104
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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