EIGHT FIGURES OF THE SERIES OF THE SEVEN LIBERAL ARTS AS PUTTI

Description:

Closter Veilsdorf, circa 1766
H. 12/13 cm
Cupido as sculptor, 2 x Cupido as man of war or ‘The Rhetoric’, 3 x Cupido as poetry, Cupido as field knife and a further figure. Modelled by Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Döll, Ludwig Daniel Heyd and Georg Philipp Pfränger (sen.). Flat plinths with rocaille relief, incised mark i6/B 1x, the others without mark. Some heavily restored, chipped, cracked.
Jan Ahlers Collection
Lit. Peters 1991, no. 58-61.