Walter Schott, 'Boules player', 1897 Lot n° 408

Walter Schott, 'Boules player', 1897, Young female figure partly baring her upper body, about to throw a ball. H. 35 cm (with base). Bronze, gilt, head, décolleté, arms with ball and feet of carved ivory. Plinthe signed: Walter Schott fec., Aktien.Gesellschaft Gladenbeck Berlin (embossed). White onyx base., Exh. From Art Nouveau to Art Deco, Ivory Museum Erbach, 1998, No. 104; Cat. Bronzes, nude Ges. vorm. H. Gladenbeck & Sohn, picture foundry, Berlin-Friedrichshagen, c. 1910, p. B 68, no. 1841. The 1.36 m high copy of the 'Kugelwerferin', which stands in the flower garden at Graf Adolf-Platz, Hochbauamt Düsseldorf, is a later enlarged version of the statuette model: cat. Ethos and Pathos, The Berlin School of Sculptors 1781-1914, Sculpture Gallery of the State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin 1990, No. 248, p. 291-2.