Sculpture

MEISSEN BÖTTGER STONEWARE BUST OF A WOMAN 1935-1939
Height 11 7/8 inches (30.4 cm.)

modelled by Professor Paul Börner, the details lightly polished; impressed crossed swords mark with two cancellation marks to rear of base, impressed crossed swords mark and 'STAATLICH MEISSEN/ BöTTGERSTEINZEUG', impressed model number A1037, mass number L241 and numeral 124

Professor Paul Börner (1888-1970) studied in Meissen, Dresden and Florence, and was appointed to the Meissen manufactory as a painter in 1910. From 1930 he was Director of the painting and design studios, and from 1937, Professor at the Akadamie für Kunstgewerbe Dresden. During the 1950s he designed smallscale figures for the Berlin manufactory. See C. Marusch-Krohn, Meissener Porzellan 1918-1933 Die Pfeifferzeit, no.46, for a similar example, which was modelled in 1922.