P007 - VIENNA GROUP OF YOUNG MUSICIANS

 

Circa 1765, blue Bindenschild mark

Modeled as a young lute player and flautist performing for a monkey seated on a rock

(neck of lute restuck, lower end of flute lacking; monkey’s right hand, left arm and left foot lacking, the right foot restuck; two music scrolls lacking end; flute player restored through neck, restoration to back of jacket)

7 ¾ in. (19.7 cm) high

 

LITERATURE

Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, p. 192, plate 91, fig. 319.

 

EXHIBITION

On display in the “George Ryland Scott Collection” at The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art between June 1955 and May 1960