Antique 19th Century German Volkstedt Porcelain Dresden Cherub Figurine Group
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A delightful and charming figurine depicting a group of putti playing musical instruments and, as part of the band, a pair of turtle doves playing the tambourine!
It is superbly modelled and painted and the expressions on the faces of the cherubs are really sweet. One of the cherubs is holding a garland of flowers which makes me think this is an allegory of love with the little angels serenading a courting couple perhaps?
Inevitably with a porcelain figurine of this age... and fineness, there are a few losses: one finger of the topmost putti holding the garland is missing; the little finger and one of the pipes of the cherub playing the bagpipes(?) and the tip of the wing on one of the turtledoves, but that is all I can see.
The back stamp is for Volkstedt porcelain factory in Rudolstadt, Thringia Gemany.
The Volkstedt porcelain factory was sited in Rudolstadt, Thuringia Germany. Volkstedt was a soft-paste porcelain factory started in 1760 by Georg Heinrich Macheleid at Volkstedt, Thuringia and was the earliest porcelain manufacturer in Thuringia. I believe this figurine to date from the latter half of the 19th century around about 1890.
It is superbly modelled and painted and the expressions on the faces of the cherubs are really sweet. One of the cherubs is holding a garland of flowers which makes me think this is an allegory of love with the little angels serenading a courting couple perhaps?
Inevitably with a porcelain figurine of this age... and fineness, there are a few losses: one finger of the topmost putti holding the garland is missing; the little finger and one of the pipes of the cherub playing the bagpipes(?) and the tip of the wing on one of the turtledoves, but that is all I can see.
The back stamp is for Volkstedt porcelain factory in Rudolstadt, Thringia Gemany.
The Volkstedt porcelain factory was sited in Rudolstadt, Thuringia Germany. Volkstedt was a soft-paste porcelain factory started in 1760 by Georg Heinrich Macheleid at Volkstedt, Thuringia and was the earliest porcelain manufacturer in Thuringia. I believe this figurine to date from the latter half of the 19th century around about 1890.
