A Meissen porcelain bust of Louis-Joseph-Xavier de Bourbon
A Meissen porcelain bust of Louis-Joseph-Xavier de Bourbon
Portrait of the young prince dressed in a feather topped bonnet and a white lace shirt. Blue crossed swords mark, incised model number 2744, pressnummer 35, unglazed base. Restaurierte Chips um die Sockelkante, minimale Chips an der linken Schulter und dem weißen Band. H 23.5 cm.
Model by Johann Joachim Kaendler, circa/after 1753, presumably produced in the 18th C.
Provenance
"From the property of a Württemberg aristocrat, auctioned by Lempertz Cologne, auction 845 on 14th November 2003, lot 167.
Private collection, Lower Rhine Region."
Literature
"Cf. the example in the Pauls-Eisenbeiss collection in Menzhausen/Karpinski, In Porzellan verzaubert, Basel 1993, p. 161.
Cf. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 2000, no. 330. The identification as a son of the Saxon Dauphine Maria Josepha who died young (1751 - 1761) is based on Otto Walcha."
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A Meissen porcelain bust of Louis-Joseph-Xavier de Bourbon
Portrait of the young prince dressed in a feather topped bonnet and a white lace shirt. Blue crossed swords mark, incised model number 2744, pressnummer 35, unglazed base. Restaurierte Chips um die Sockelkante, minimale Chips an der linken Schulter und dem weißen Band. H 23.5 cm.
Model by Johann Joachim Kaendler, circa/after 1753, presumably produced in the 18th C.
Provenance
"From the property of a Württemberg aristocrat, auctioned by Lempertz Cologne, auction 845 on 14th November 2003, lot 167.
Private collection, Lower Rhine Region."
Literature
"Cf. the example in the Pauls-Eisenbeiss collection in Menzhausen/Karpinski, In Porzellan verzaubert, Basel 1993, p. 161.
Cf. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 2000, no. 330. The identification as a son of the Saxon Dauphine Maria Josepha who died young (1751 - 1761) is based on Otto Walcha."
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