Bust of a Woman representing Spring: C.5-1950

Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)

Titles

Bust of a Woman representing Spring

Maker(s)

Factory: Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory
Modeller: Bustelli, Franz Anton

Entities

Bust

Description

Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt

Hard-paste porcelain, painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh, pale mauve, red, pale brown, and a little black (for pupil of eyes) enamel, and gilded; the underside is open and glazed. The bust is supported on a circular waisted socle with a stepped edge, decorated on the front with a cartouche enclosing an impressed Rautenshield. The woman has long pale brown hair swept up into a knot at the back of her head, falling down onto her shoulders at the back, and dressed with flowers at the front. Her head is tilted and turned towards her left, her neck is long and slender, and she is nude apart from a yellow and pale mauve drape over her right shoulder which is held in place by a pale mauve ribbon which encircles her torso below the breasts and is tied with a bow under her truncated left arm. At the front, the drape forms a curved projection filled with flowers. There are gold lines round the edge of the drape, the edges of the cartouche, and the upper and lower edges of the socle.

Notes

History note: London, Sotheby's, 28 February 1950, Catalogue of English and Continental Ceramics, the Property of a Gentleman deceased. Sold by order of the Executors, p. 17, lot 120.