A Nymphenburg figure of a female putto late 19th or early 20th century

after the model by Bustelli, as if running with billowing drapery, set on a plinth moulded with the Bavarian shield

Purchased from H. E. Backer Antiques, January 1949, for £45.

very good condition
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For the original model by Franz Anton Bustelli of about 1760, called Putto im eiligen Lauf, set on a flat scroll-edged base, see Alfred Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan, Sammlung Bäuml, p. 33, no. 42