Pipe bowl
ca. 1755-60
This pipe bowl, with its grotesque face, displays the skilled playful modeling for which the sculptor Franz Anton Bustelli became famous. The most important appointment to the Nymphenburg factory, he is considered one of the greatest porcelain modelers of eighteenth-century Europe. A granddaughter of Augustus the Strong of Meissen, Princess Maria Anna Sophia, offered her support to the new Bavarian porcelain factory at Neudeck-Nymphenburg following her marriage to the Elector of Bavaria.
Hard paste porcelain
2 5/8 x 1 5/8 x 2 3/8 in. (6.67 x 4.13 x 6.0 cm)
Dorothy Condon Falknor Collection of European Ceramics
87.142.40
Photo: Paul Macapia