Austrian, probably Ernst Wahliss (Austrian, 1836 - 1900), circa 1900. Art Nouveau porcelain bust of a stylish woman, after the original by Eduard Stellmacher (Austrian, 1868 - 1929) having a floral and peacock feather headdress and realistically painted face with head slightly turned, faint blush on checks and lips, a gold painted heart pendant necklace dangling over the bare chest and shoulders dressed in an elaborate fashionable puffy and ruffle-trimmed cream and green lace bodice tapering at the waist and resting on four legs decorated with raised flowers. Marked to the underside in red underglaze 'Depose-Wien Teplitz-Made in Austria'. Approximate height 11.75", width 8.75" (shoulder to shoulder). Note: Teplitz refers to art pottery manufactured by a number of companies in the Teplitz-Turn area of Bohemia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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