A Berlin KPM allegorical porcelain figure of a boy as January - image-1

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A Berlin KPM allegorical porcelain figure of a boy as January

Auction 1084 - overview Berlin
03.05.2017, 18:00 - The Berlin Sale
Estimate: 500 € - 700 €
Result: 434 € (incl. premium)
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A Berlin KPM allegorical porcelain figure of a boy as January

Blue sceptre mark to the inner edge of the plinth, engraved "January?" to the back of the plinth. A chip to the end of the hat, losses of pigment to the black of the shoes, losses to the finger tips. H 10.9 cm.
Ca. 1775.

Provenance

From a Westphalian collection
Lempertz auction 906, 23rd May 2007, lot 29.

Literature

Other children as representations of the months in: Lenz (reprint), vol. 2, pl. 115; the January figure in: Köllmann, Braunschweig 1966, vol. I, pl. 28.