A Vienna porcelain bust of Empress Maria Theresia

A Vienna porcelain bust of Empress Maria Theresia Closed bust-length biscuit porcelain portrait of Maria Theresia as a widow with a miniature relief of her husband Emperor Franz Stephan I. On a moulded column base, inscribed M. THERESIA. Engraved on the reverse ELIAS HÜTTER ALT 72 Jahr F. Stamped 'bindenschild' mark and 856 (plinth 857). The putty between the bust and the plinth has discoloured and become somewhat brittle with age. Height 39.5 cm. Vienna, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory under Alexander Löwe, 1856; the plinth, 1857; the model by Elias Hütter, around 1847.

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