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Pyramid to a garden decoration - Nymphenburg,...

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Pyramid to a garden decoration - Nymphenburg, model by Josef Wackerle, 1922, based on a Frankenthal model of Konrad Link porcelain. Color and gold staffage. On a rocky base with monogram cartouche rises a slender pyramid surrounded by ivy and crowned by a putto. Press mark, mod. no. 202. Besch. H. 50 cm. Cf. Ziffer, Alfred, Nymphenburg Modernism. Munich 1997, p. 454. Hofmann, Friedrich, Frankenthal Porcelain. Munich 1911, vol. I, pl. 87 (allegory "Victory of beauty over envy").