Lot 637 D α

A Sorgenthal biscuit porcelain bust of Empress Maria Theresa

Auction 1107 - overview Cologne
15.05.2018, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
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A Sorgenthal biscuit porcelain bust of Empress Maria Theresa

Depicting Maria Theresa as a widow wearing a relief miniature of her husband Emperor Francis I. On a moulded column-shaped plinth inscribed M. THERESIA. Engraved to the reverse ELIAS HÜTTER ALT 72 Jahr F. Stamped bindenschild mark 854 (857 to the socle). A discoloured and slightly brittle filling between the chest and the plinth. H 39.5 cm.
Vienna, Sorgenthal Manufactory, 1856, the plinth 1857, modelled by Elias Hütter, ca. 1847.

Literature

For this model maker cf.: Mrazek/Neuwirth, wiener Porzellan, Wien, undated, p. 40. Elias Hütter (1775 - 1863) is listed as a "bossierer" in 1804 and retired in 1857, the year this bust was produced.