Title(s)

Bust of Ferdinand, duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg

Object type

• bust

Object number

BK-NM-7407-1

Inscriptions / marks

• mark: ‘galopperend paard/ I’

Description

Buste van porselein in biscuit van Ferdinand, hertog van Braunschweig-Lüneburg. Gemerkt op de onderzijde met een galopperend paard met daaronder I.

Artist

• porcelain company: Fürstenberg
• Johann Adam Hendler
• Jean Jacques Desoches (rejected attribution)

Place

Fürstenberg

Dating

1781

Material

• porcelain

Technique

formed / fired

Measurements

height 23.5 cm × width 9.3 cm × depth 9.3 cm

Acquisition

transferred 1885

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Bust of Ferdinand, duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (BK-NM-7407)

• Fascination of fragility : masterpieces of European porcelain, Ulrich Pietsch, Theresa Witting, p. 140, cat.nr. 158