Hentschel child

Lot 3883 limit € 1.300

Meissen manufactory, swords underglaze blue, 1st choice, draft by Konrad Hentschel 1905, model no. 73368 (old W 122), sleeping toddler snuggling up to a dog, painted in colour, height approx. 8 cm, after 1948; Konrad Hentschel (1872-1907), 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 children playing