Boy tuning a violin - Passau, Germany - detail of advertisement

Antique: Boy tuning a violin - Passau, Germany

White, painted and gilded porcelain. A statuette of a standing boy with a violin against his thighs. Dressed in a rococo dress with a purple coat. In the back, laid books of music. Round rococo shaped pedestal with embossed gilt ornament. Marked from below: blue beehive, impressed bishop’s crutch, A 500, handwritten painter’s number 4. Dressel, Kister & Co. , Passau. Germany since 1908. Height 14 cm.