‘Entführung der Europa’ [The Rape of Europa],
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Europa seated on the bull leaning forwards, holding a horn in her right hand, her left of the shoulder of her companion, who is garlanding the bull with flowers, behind which stands an amphora, to the rear another of Europa’s companions strokes the bull, to the base Neptune, leaning on an amphora and emptying the water it holds, with a symbolic spring, biscuit porcelain, height 33 cm, length 27 cm, a few firing cracks, repair 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
21.10.2015 - 15:00
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EUR 12,000.- to EUR 20,000.-
‘Entführung der Europa’ [The Rape of Europa],
Europa seated on the bull leaning forwards, holding a horn in her right hand, her left of the shoulder of her companion, who is garlanding the bull with flowers, behind which stands an amphora, to the rear another of Europa’s companions strokes the bull, to the base Neptune, leaning on an amphora and emptying the water it holds, with a symbolic spring, biscuit porcelain, height 33 cm, length 27 cm, a few firing cracks, repair 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
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Auction: | Works of Art (Furniture, Sculpture, Glass and porcelain) |
Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
Date: | 21.10.2015 - 15:00 |
Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
Exhibition: | 10.10. - 21.10.2015 |