BR33.14: Octavio

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR33.14

People

Made by Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory, German (1747 - )
Designed by Franz Anton Bustelli, German (Locarno, Switzerland 1723 - 1763 Munich, Germany)

Title

Octavio

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

figurine, sculpture

Date

c. 1760

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Germany, Nymphenburg

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/225902

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Hard-paste porcelain.

Dimensions

sight: 18.8 cm (7 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• (not assigned): sockel, back of figure: impressed [shield] [mark of Nymphenburg Manufactory)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

A.S. Drey, New York, sold to Charles L. Kuhn, 1933.

Charles L. Kuhn, Purchased from A.S. Drey, New York, Gift to HUAM, 1933.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Charles Kuhn in memory of Minnie S. Kuhn

Accession Year

1933

Object Number

BR33.14

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Anneliese Harding, German Sculpture in New England Museums, Goethe Institute (Boston, MA, 1972), p. 19, repr. p. 70 as fig. 125
• Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 218

Exhibition History

• A Taste of Power: 18th-Century German Porcelain for the Table, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 03/29/2008 - 06/30/2008

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