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Lot 94

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.

Condition Report: click here
Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000
Hammer price: £5,500
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

In good overall condition. there is an area of restoration to the base and breakages to the foliate decoration in relief (please see additional images)

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