Two rare Polish faience allegories of Summer and Winter - image-1

Lot 1028 Dα

Two rare Polish faience allegories of Summer and Winter

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €

Two rare Polish faience allegories of Summer and Winter

Depicting children as allegories of the seasons. The autumn with a goblet and a panther, the summer with a sickel and sheaves of wheat. Unmarked. The head of the summer reattached, the sickle and the bird restored. H 20.2 and 18.8 cm.
Attributed to Prószków, circa 1770.

Literature

Cf. the figure of winter in The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, inv. no. C.2930-1928.