Lalage
Bustelli treated his figures like actors performing to the music of Purcell or Mozart. He knew how to make porcelain the ideal vehicle for the creation of small sculptures, and how to impersonate in his charades the lighthearted charm that is the essence of rococo art.
Artwork Details
- Title: Lalage
- Manufactory: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory (German, 1747–present)
- Modeler: Franz Anton Bustelli (Swiss, Locarno ca. 1720–1763 Munich)
- Date: ca. 1763–67
- Culture: German, Nymphenburg
- Medium: Hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions: Height: 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
- Credit Line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1943
- Object Number: 43.100.56
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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