Bavaria auf Sockel | 20 cm Eule a well executed animal sculpture

a well executed animal sculpture captures the locomotion in its entirety

at the transitions between them

which owes its name to a string of pearls surrounding each individual piece

the elegant shape merges with the decor that harmoniously frames the opening in the porcelain

Bavaria auf Sockel | 20 cm Eule a well executed animal sculptureIn the same year as the inauguration of the world famous Bavaria statue on the Theresienhhe in Munich, her twenty centimetre tall porcelain sister emerged from the kiln of the master workshops in Nymphenburg. Ludwig Michael von Schwanthaler, one of the principal masters of classical sculpture in Southern Germany, was responsible for the elaboration of both designs. He consciously dressed the secular patron saint of Bavaria in Germanic fashion in a