A NYMPHENBURG GROUP OF “THE SLEEPER DISTURBED”

circa 1770, after a model by Franz Anton Bustelli, with a farm boy curled up asleep in a series of “C”-scrolls leaning against an obelisk, beside a farm girl playing the xylophone, and a dog, on a shaped shallow grassy mound, the base edged with scrolls enriched in colours, with impressed Bavarian shield mark, 24cm high

Provenance: Anonymous sale, Christie’s London, 4th December 1978, lot 117.
Christie’s, 11th December 2007, lot 136.
Bt. from E & H Manners, 3rd April 2008.