BR59.144: Swan cane handle
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BR59.144
- People
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Franz Anton Bustelli, German (Locarno, Switzerland 1723 - 1763 Munich, Germany)
Manufactured by Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory, German (1747 - )
- Title
- Swan cane handle
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Stockknopf mit Mannsgesicht Gänßschnabel Facon
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture, figurine
- Date
- c. 1760
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Germany, Nymphenburg
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/223197
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain.
- Technique
- Mold-made
- Dimensions
- 8.89 cm (3 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- manufacturer's mark: sockel (underneath head of figure) : impressed [shield] [mark of Nymphenburg Manufactory)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Terwilliger, Gift to HUAM, 1959.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. Graves Terwilliger
- Accession Year
- 1959
- Object Number
- BR59.144
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Animals from Legend and Life in Antique German Porcelain: A Study of Animal Motifs from 1735 to 1835, exh. cat. (Minneapolis, 1977), cat. no. 29, p. 39
Verification Level
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