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Auction archive: Lot number 66

A Nymphenburg figure of a putto in disguise as Mars

Auction 08.12.2003
8 Dec 2003
Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$3,500 - US$5,250
Price realised:
£3,585
ca. US$6,274
Auction archive: Lot number 66

A Nymphenburg figure of a putto in disguise as Mars

Auction 08.12.2003
8 Dec 2003
Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$3,500 - US$5,250
Price realised:
£3,585
ca. US$6,274
Beschreibung:

A Nymphenburg figure of a putto in disguise as Mars Circa 1755-60, incised 8 Modelled by F.A. Bustelli , in an agressive pose with his sword drawn and holding a circular shield, looking to his his left wearing a brightly plumed blue helmet with a gilt visor, his blue breastplate with a gilt panel moulded with a fleur-de-lys, wearing high black boots and a brown-striped yellow sash loosely wrapped about his waist and falling to the ground, a scabbard suspended at his left hip, on a shaped flat mound base strewn with silvered cannon balls about his feet, incised and applied with tufts of grass and edged with sweeping gilt scrolls (broken through below knees and restored, shield restuck, sword blade and scabbard a replacement, small chip to edge of base and inside edge of shield) 4 in. (10.3 cm.) high

Auction archive: Lot number 66
Auction:
Datum:
8 Dec 2003
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

A Nymphenburg figure of a putto in disguise as Mars Circa 1755-60, incised 8 Modelled by F.A. Bustelli , in an agressive pose with his sword drawn and holding a circular shield, looking to his his left wearing a brightly plumed blue helmet with a gilt visor, his blue breastplate with a gilt panel moulded with a fleur-de-lys, wearing high black boots and a brown-striped yellow sash loosely wrapped about his waist and falling to the ground, a scabbard suspended at his left hip, on a shaped flat mound base strewn with silvered cannon balls about his feet, incised and applied with tufts of grass and edged with sweeping gilt scrolls (broken through below knees and restored, shield restuck, sword blade and scabbard a replacement, small chip to edge of base and inside edge of shield) 4 in. (10.3 cm.) high

Auction archive: Lot number 66
Auction:
Datum:
8 Dec 2003
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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