Lot 52: Johan Altorf , 1876-1955 Olifant cast porcelain

signed and dated 1912 ; underglaze mark of Altorf, Bremmer and Lanooij cast porcelain

height: 23 cm.

P. A. Terwen, Het ceramische werk van J. C. Altorf en de samenwerking met Chris Lanooij, Vormen uit Vuur 2/21, 1998, p. 11, fig. 4.

Executed by C.J. Lanooij in 1912 in an edition of 12.
Between 1911 and 1915 a group of five animals modelled by Altorf and executed by Lanooij (an owl, a cockatoo, a bison, a monkey and an elephant ) was produced in a limited edition.

Other casts of this sculpture are to be found in the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller Otterlo, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam and Collectie Meentwijck, Bussum.