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Antique 18thC Porcelain Tournai Tournay Putto Figurine Figure Porcelaine Belgian
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For sale is a soft paste porcelain figurine made by either Tournay / Tournai or Strasbourg Hannong in the 18th century . I am leaning much more towards Tournai though. The piece is of a putto standing on a flat base with a hollow tree trunk as his support. Nicely modeled and left in the white which was more valued than painted pieces back then. The figurine displays OK but has had a bit of a rough time over his 250 or so years of life. His arms and hands have been worked on, the head was off and reattached and there is a break through his upper leg and the top tree trunk and under his front foot - so he was off the base at some point as well. Sounds worse than it looks and it's still a nice and rare example of a great maker from this early period. The figure is 3.625 inches tall, 1.625 inc