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German sculptor and potter (1723–1763)

Franz Anton Bustelli (12 April 1723 – 18 April 1763) was a Swiss-born German modeller for the BavarianNymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory from 1754 to his death in 1763.

He is widely regarded as the finest modeller of porcelain in the Rococo style: "if the art of European porcelain finds its most perfect expression in the rococo style, so the style finds its most perfect expression in the work of Bustelli".^[2]

Bustelli was born in Locarno in Italian-speaking Switzerland, and died in Munich, Bavaria, just after his 40th birthday.

Modeler: Franz Anton Bustelli (Swiss, Locarno ca.

Modeler: Franz Anton Bustelli (Swiss, Locarno ca.

The most provocative object I've ever sold was a crucifix by Franz Anton Bustelli, from I'm Jewish, but to me the depiction of human.

Franz Anton Bustelli.

The purpose of this article is to identify the undisputed works of Alexandre Ubeleski (/–21 April ), a painter of Polish origin.

Modeler: Franz Anton Bustelli (Swiss, Locarno ca.

Few details of his life are known, but he trained as a sculptor, probably mostly in wood,^[3] in Italy. He spoke and wrote German fluently, and may have grown up in Bavaria.

Nymphenburg

Bustelli joined the Neudeck factory in Munich in 1754, the year after it was established by the local ruler, Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria.

That year the elector placed