‘Entführung der Europa’ [The Rape of Europa],
![‘Entführung der Europa’ [The Rape of Europa], - Works of Art (Furniture, Sculptures, Glass, Porcelain) ‘Entführung der Europa’ [The Rape of Europa], - Works of Art (Furniture, Sculptures, Glass, Porcelain)](/fileadmin/lot-images/37X160420/normal/-entfuehrung-der-europa-1862753.jpg)
Europa seated leaning on the bull, holding a horn in her right hand, her left on the shoulder of her companion, who is adorning the bull with a garland of flowers, behind her stands an amphora, to the reverse another companion strokes the bull, Neptune, encamped to the base, leans his right hand on an amphora from which water is spilling, symbolising a spring, biscuit porcelain, height 33 cm, length 27 cm, a few firing cracks, some restoration to neck of Europa, Vienna, Imperial Manufactory, blue shield mark circa 1784, former A Anton Karadea 1783-1804 (Ru)
Lit.: J. Folnesics, Dr. E. W. Braun, Geschichte der k. k. Wiener Porzellan-Manufaktur, Vienna 1907, p. 192, plate XLII, ill. 6;
Sheila A. Tabakoff, Le Porcellane di Vienna a Palazzo Pitti, Florence 2002, p. 91, ill. 35;
Specialist: Ursula Rohringer
Ursula Rohringer
+43-1-515 60-382
ursula.rohringer@dorotheum.at
20.04.2016 - 15:00
- Estimate:
-
EUR 6,000.- to EUR 9,000.-
‘Entführung der Europa’ [The Rape of Europa],
Europa seated leaning on the bull, holding a horn in her right hand, her left on the shoulder of her companion, who is adorning the bull with a garland of flowers, behind her stands an amphora, to the reverse another companion strokes the bull, Neptune, encamped to the base, leans his right hand on an amphora from which water is spilling, symbolising a spring, biscuit porcelain, height 33 cm, length 27 cm, a few firing cracks, some restoration to neck of Europa, Vienna, Imperial Manufactory, blue shield mark circa 1784, former A Anton Karadea 1783-1804 (Ru)
Lit.: J. Folnesics, Dr. E. W. Braun, Geschichte der k. k. Wiener Porzellan-Manufaktur, Vienna 1907, p. 192, plate XLII, ill. 6;
Sheila A. Tabakoff, Le Porcellane di Vienna a Palazzo Pitti, Florence 2002, p. 91, ill. 35;
Specialist: Ursula Rohringer
Ursula Rohringer
+43-1-515 60-382
ursula.rohringer@dorotheum.at
Buyers hotline
Mon.-Fri.: 9.00am - 6.00pm
kundendienst@dorotheum.at +43 1 515 60 200 |
Auction: | Works of Art (Furniture, Sculptures, Glass, Porcelain) |
Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
Date: | 20.04.2016 - 15:00 |
Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
Exhibition: | 09.04. - 20.04.2016 |