A pair of Nymphenburg white putti in disguise Circa 1755, one with impressed shield mark to tree-stump and incised V · E (?) to underside Modelled by Franz Anton Bustelli , the first as Mercury with a winged hat and winged ankles, playing a flute and seated naked on a tree-stump with a caduceus nearby, the second as Vulcan or Cupid, scantily clad in an apron and standing with his knee resting on a tree-stump forging an arrow on an anvil, a hammer and a horseshoe nearby, each on scroll-moulded shallow mound bases (Mercury with chipping to little fingers, minute chipping to one wing and part of flute lacking, Vulcan with part of arrow lacking and chipping to one tip of anvil) 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) and 4½ in. (11.3 cm.) high (2)
A pair of Nymphenburg white putti in disguise Circa 1755, one with impressed shield mark to tree-stump and incised V · E (?) to underside Modelled by Franz Anton Bustelli , the first as Mercury with a winged hat and winged ankles, playing a flute and seated naked on a tree-stump with a caduceus nearby, the second as Vulcan or Cupid, scantily clad in an apron and standing with his knee resting on a tree-stump forging an arrow on an anvil, a hammer and a horseshoe nearby, each on scroll-moulded shallow mound bases (Mercury with chipping to little fingers, minute chipping to one wing and part of flute lacking, Vulcan with part of arrow lacking and chipping to one tip of anvil) 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) and 4½ in. (11.3 cm.) high (2)
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