Statuette - a young nobleman in Hungarian costume

Ceramics and Glass Collection

Accession Nr.: 19522
Artist/Maker:
Bernhardt, Franz / painter
Manufacturer: Viennese Porcelain Factory
Date of production:
ca. 1770
Inscription: alján máz alatti kék pajzsjegy és piros festőszám: 13 (Franz Bernhardt?)
Materials: porcelain
Techniques: gilded; painted in polychrome overglaze
Dimensions:
height: 19 cm
width: 10 cm
A young man, standing in front of a rock, with a "mente", braided with fox fur, on his left shoulder. His pelisse is decorated with golden braids like his trousers, it is light violet. His sword-belt and boots are yellow there is a green flap on his fur cap. This is a 1770 remoulding of a finely modelled, elaborate piece of 1750, designed by Johann Josef Niedermeyer. The painting of the contemporary (Maria Theresian) clothes is very precise and accurate. Marked on the bottom with a blue shield under glaze, and a red painters' number: 13 / Franz Bernhardt (?).

Literature

  • Szerk.: Szilágyi András, Péter Márta: Barokk és rokokó. Az európai iparművészet stíluskorszakai. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1990. - Nr. 6.171. (Varga Vera)
  • Varga Vera: Bécsi porcelán az Iparművészeti Múzeum gyűjteményében. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1986. - Nr. 102
  • Tasnádiné Marik Klára: A bécsi porcelán. Corvina Kiadó, Budapest, 1971. - Nr. 39.
  • Braun Edmund Wilhelm, Folnesics Josef: Geschichte der k. k. Wiener Porzellan-Manufaktur. Österreich. Museum für angewandte Kunst, Wien, 1907. - XXXII. tábla (analógia)