A Berlin faience figure of a Chinese official - image-1

Lot 789 Dα

A Berlin faience figure of a Chinese official

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Ceramics
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
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A Berlin faience figure of a Chinese official

Dressed in a robe opulently decorated with lotus flowers, dot motifs and branches. Unmarked. The head reattached, filled firing cracks to the base. H 34.5 cm.
Manufactory of Gerhard Wolbeer, around 1710.

Literature

Cf. Keisch/Netzer, "Herrliche Künste und Manufacturen" Fayence, Glas und Tapisserien aus der Frühzeit Brandenburgs-Preußens 1680 - 1720, Berlin 2001, cat. no. 35.