Putto with Grape Shirt

Bertold Löffler

Nieder-Rosenthal, Böhmen 1874 - 1960 Wien

Putto with Grape Shirt

Manufactured by the Wiener Keramik, WK model number 306

Pale pottery, polychrome glaze

H 54 cm, W 33 cm

Marks: WK, monograms Lö and AK (Anton Klieber)

Arlt/Weilinger WV no. 306
Minor chips professionally restored

Ausstellungen:

Exhibition Imperial Royal Museum of Art and Industry (today's MAK), Vienna 1912
Werkbund exhibition, Cologne 1914

Literatur:

cf. Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, vol. XXXI, Darmstadt, Oct. 1912 – March 1913, ill. p. 95
cf. L.W. Rochowanski, Wiener Keramik, Leipzig and Vienna 1923, ill. p. 31 (Putto with “Flower Pants”)
cf. Max Eisler, Dagobert Peche, Vienna and Leipzig 1925, plate 9
cf. Thomas Arlt and Arthur Weilinger, Wiener Keramik. Bertold Löffler Michael Powolny, catalogue raisonné, Vienna 2018, ill. p. 178 and ill. p. 330, WV no. 306