MEASURES:
Height: 3,94 inch; Width: 1,69 inch; Depth: 1,3 inch
CONDITIONS:
Excellent general conditions. Only very small lack of the final part of the fife.

Item description:
Sculpture in solid hard-paste porcelain, the base is not hollow but solid, like the oldest porcelains. Depicting a child with a fife, it is entirely hand-decorated with a brush tip, glazed, and finished in pure gold. It is made and signed on the back with the ancient mark of the German Plaue factory, and has a catalog number under the base. The sculpture dates to the 19th century, around 1830-1850, and the beautiful patina confirms this. The artistic quality of the object is extremely high, with a compact and extremely hard porcelain paste, rich in kaolin, as only the oldest porcelains were made, when this material was not yet exhausted. Note the beauty of the floral decorations on the child's jacket, all hand-crafted, brushstroke by brushstroke, with small, meticulous decorations of the highest technical quality. All the white circles are filled with flowers, resembling miniature still lifes.
Useful information for the evaluation of the object:
In our online searches, we found several items made by the Plaue factory for sale, all at very high prices. A large, very recent vase from 1980, also by Plaue, is listed for over €3,000 on Pamono, while similar, larger porcelain sculptures from the late 19th century—and therefore younger than our Pied Piper—are listed for prices ranging from €500 to over €1,000.
Information on artist and/or manufacturer:
The Plaue factory is one of the most important German manufacturers, although not particularly old, founded in Thuringia, a region of Germany. Von Schierholzsch founded a factory of artistic porcelain in the Meissen style in 1817. In 1890, the Von Schierholzsch factory was nationalized and became the Plaue National Manufactory. This was due to the high artistic and luxurious quality of the porcelain produced, as well as the lithophane decoration, in which Plaue was undoubtedly a leader in Europe in the second half of the 19th century and into the 20th century. The mark under this sculpture is in red underglaze, the first ever used by the Plaue factory. In the last photos, we have provided historical notes on the factory with some of the marks used, including the one under this sculpture.

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