Lot 473: A GERMAN CARVED WHITE MARBLE WALL FOUNTAIN

A GERMAN CARVED WHITE MARBLE WALL FOUNTAIN
BY FRIEDRICH WILHELM WOLFF (1816-1887), CIRCA 1865
The shell-shaped basin with circular moulded plinth above, supported by scrolling foliage and a dolphin, signed WOLFF W 65 to the side and initials F.W. to the back
77 cm. high x 50 cm. wide x 66 cm. deep

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Franz Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff (1816-1887) began his education at the age of fourteen at the iron foundry in Berlin and at the age of 16 he moved on to the royal Gewerbe-Institut. Later he studied under Soyer in his foundry in Paris. As a result of his preference to create animal sculptures he gained the nickname "Tier-Wolff". Several of his sculptures are now still on display in public places of which the Sterbende Löwin for the Berliner Tiergarten is well-known.