A porcelain walking stick handle formed as a female head. - image-1

Lot 62 Dα

A porcelain walking stick handle formed as a female head.

Auction 1030 - overview Berlin
24.05.2014, 11:00 - The Berlin Sale
Estimate: 600 €
Result: 854 € (incl. premium)

A porcelain walking stick handle formed as a female head.

With a gilt metal collar. Unmarked. Wear to the glaze. L 13.5 cm.
Probably Wegely or Ansbach, ca. 1755 - 60.

Literature

Cf. Adolf Beyer, Ansbacher Porzellan, Braunschweig 1959, illus. 38.
Illus. in: Zick, Berliner Porzellan der Manufaktur von Wilhelm Caspar Wegely, Berlin 1978, cat. 299.