PAIR OF RARE FIGURES OF TARTARS AS INCENSE BURNERS,
Nymphenburg, ca. 1765. Model by Franz Anton Bustelli.
Impressed coat-of-arms marks on the front of the bases.
H 10.5 cm.

Fire crack in the base of the male Tartar.

Provenance:
- Collection Henry and Emma Budge, Hamburg (collection label).
- Auction Paul Graupe Berlin, Collection Emma Budge, 27-29 September 1937, Lot No. 963.
- Swiss private collection.

Comparative items: Collection Kocher, Berne (Wyss 1965, p. 172); Bavarian National Museum, Munich (Hofmann I, 1923, Fig. 125).

The auctioning of this lot is carried out in the context of an agreement between the Seller and the Budge Estate, in which the latter waives any further claims to reassignation.