P014 - TWO BERLIN FIGURES OF EMBLEMATIC MARCH AND APRIL

 

Circa 1766-1767, blue scepter marks

From a series of the Twelve Months of the Year, identified as Martius and April on their square bases

(April’s hand a restored replacement; the other with restoration through the tree-stump and base, the object in the boy’s hands lacking)

4 in. (10.2 cm) high

 

LITERATURE

Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, p. 193, plate 110, figs. 374, 375.

 

EXHIBITION

On display in the Scott-Allen Collection at The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia from 1976 until 1996

 

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