Two Berlin KPM biscuit porcelain busts of Voltaire and Marquis d'Argens
Two Berlin KPM biscuit porcelain busts of Voltaire and Marquis d'Argens
The Voltaire relief model no. 916, inscribed "IMMOR/TALIS" and with blue imperial eagle mark in a circle and impressed mark Z. H 16.5 cm, produced 1847 – 49. The Marquis d´Argens relief model no. 1063 with blue sceptre mark and impressed mark Z. Both faces restored, the nose tips replaced. H 16.5 cm.
Produced around/after 1775. Both models by Friedrich Elias Meyer.
Provenance
Collection of Renate and Tono Dreßen.
Literature
Two identical busts recorded in the loss registry of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin (pub. in Heim, Die Berliner Porzellanplastik und ihre skulpturale Dimension 1751 - 1825, Berlin 216, no. 82 f, p. 588 f).
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Two Berlin KPM biscuit porcelain busts of Voltaire and Marquis d'Argens
The Voltaire relief model no. 916, inscribed "IMMOR/TALIS" and with blue imperial eagle mark in a circle and impressed mark Z. H 16.5 cm, produced 1847 – 49. The Marquis d´Argens relief model no. 1063 with blue sceptre mark and impressed mark Z. Both faces restored, the nose tips replaced. H 16.5 cm.
Produced around/after 1775. Both models by Friedrich Elias Meyer.
Provenance
Collection of Renate and Tono Dreßen.
Literature
Two identical busts recorded in the loss registry of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin (pub. in Heim, Die Berliner Porzellanplastik und ihre skulpturale Dimension 1751 - 1825, Berlin 216, no. 82 f, p. 588 f).
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