Die Fledermaus: Pair of Large Austro-Bohemian Painted Bisque Porcelain Busts
An extraordinary pair of large Austro-Bohemian bisque porcelain busts by the Teplitz/Amphora porcelain manufactory depicting Rosalinde and Count Orlofsky from Johann Strauss’s operetta Die Fledermaus, Rosalinde shown in elaborate fin de siècle quasi-18th century toilette du bal, and Count Orlofsky, nearly always sung as a trouser rôle by a mezzo-soprano, shown as an en travestie gallant sporting a tricorne hat
Height 43 cm (17 inches)
circa 1900
Alfred Stellmacher founded the Royal and Imperial Porcelain Factory in Turn-Teplitz in Bohemia in the 1850s and persuaded his son, Edward Stellmacher to expand and start the Amphora Company in Vienna in 1892 with brothers Hans and Carl Reissner and Rudolf Kessel.
