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A Cherub Returns Home from His Journey and is Welcomed by a Second Cherub (One of Ten Plaster Casts Depicting Scenes of Pottery from the Relief Frieze on the House of Arnold Böcklin's Brother, the Master Potter Walter Böcklin)
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The plaster casts (Inv. P 6.1 – P 6.10) were taken from the terracotta reliefs that adorned the house of Walter Böcklin, the brother of Arnold Böcklin, in Clarastrasse 17 in Basel as a frieze. The reliefs depict putti illustrating scenes from a pottery workshop. The representations were presumably created in collaboration by the two brothers. It is assumed that the motifs were designed by Walter Böcklin, a master potter (Korte 1906).
Kunstmuseum Basel’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit linePutto kehrt von der Wanderschaft heim und wird von einem zweiten Putto empfangen (einer von zehn Gipsabgüssen mit Szenen der Hafnerei aus dem Relieffries am Hause von Arnold Böcklins Bruder, dem Töpfe. 1866/71. Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901). Kunstmuseum Basel, Ankauf. Public domain.
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