A GROUP FROM THE SERIES OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS - THE AIR

Description:

Volkstedt, circa 1775/80
H. 29 cm
So-called ‘bird's nest group’. Young male and female robbing a nest in a group of trees. Without mark. Partially restored and damaged.
Jan Ahlers Collection
Sattler, no. 35, after an engraving by Jacopo Amiconi (1675-1752) (illustrated by Ducret 1973, fig. 186), a similar group is also known in Limbach (see Sattler no. 75), the female figure also as a single figure (Sattler no. 36). TLHR Volkstedter Porzellan, 1999, Nr. 2