Hentschel child

Lot 4040 limit € 1.600

Meissen manufactory, swords underglaze blue, 1st choice, draft by Konrad Hentschel 1905, model no. W 121, sitting "child with a cat in its arms", colored painting, restored, height approx. 11.5 cm, model from the design period around/after 1905; Konrad Hentschel (1872 Cölln - 1907 Meissen), painter, designer and sculptor, studied at the art academies in Munich and Dresden, in the manufactory since 1889, one of the leading Art Nouveau artists in Meissen, designed numerous tableware shapes, his creations of figures culminated in a series of 12 playing children