A Berlin KPM porcelain figure of Paris as a shepherd
A Berlin KPM porcelain figure of Paris as a shepherd
Model no. 357. Depicted standing in contrapposto on a triangular plinth, wearing a purple cloth lined with green around his waist and resting on a shepherd's crook. Blue sceptre mark to the back of the plinth, unglazed, hollow base with incised K mark. The right hand restored, an underglaze firing crack to the chest, the horns, ears, and legs of one goat reattached. H 26.2 cm.
Ca. 1770 - 1775, model attributed to Friedrich Elias Meyer, ca. 1765.
Provenance
Private collection, Berlin.
Literature
Illus. in: Köllmann/Jarchow, Munich 1987, vol. II, no. 168, p. 367.
Cf. also: Heim, die Berliner Porzellanplastik und ihre skulpturale Dimension, Berlin 2016, no. 18.
An early cast is housed in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Cologne (in: Erichsen-Firle, Figürliches Porzellan, Cologne 1975, no. 12).
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A Berlin KPM porcelain figure of Paris as a shepherd
Model no. 357. Depicted standing in contrapposto on a triangular plinth, wearing a purple cloth lined with green around his waist and resting on a shepherd's crook. Blue sceptre mark to the back of the plinth, unglazed, hollow base with incised K mark. The right hand restored, an underglaze firing crack to the chest, the horns, ears, and legs of one goat reattached. H 26.2 cm.
Ca. 1770 - 1775, model attributed to Friedrich Elias Meyer, ca. 1765.
Provenance
Private collection, Berlin.
Literature
Illus. in: Köllmann/Jarchow, Munich 1987, vol. II, no. 168, p. 367.
Cf. also: Heim, die Berliner Porzellanplastik und ihre skulpturale Dimension, Berlin 2016, no. 18.
An early cast is housed in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Cologne (in: Erichsen-Firle, Figürliches Porzellan, Cologne 1975, no. 12).
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