Vienna: Love With A Cane, Imperial Manufactory, 1825

A sculpture in the roundfrom the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory in Vienna, dated 1825.

A porcelain figurine shaped like avase with polychrome enamel decoration. It depicts a naked, winged Cupid,clad only in a half-open green robe whosefabric slips off his shoulder and falls in long folds along hisbody, and wearing a purple nightcap with a soft peak,tilted backward. The figure leans with his right handon a long cane, his body slightly bent forward, hishead tilted, as if under strain. On his back, he carries a sheafof wheat, whose golden ears spread out widely and whosebase, flared and fluted, forms the vase portion of the piece. Hestands on a circular pedestal imitating veined blue-gray marble,accented with a gold border.

Manufacturer’s mark beneaththe base, featuring a shield with a canopy and dated 1825.

Height: 16 cm

Base diameter: 8 cm