BERLIN, Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur (KPM), Figure of a girl - Apathy (Trägheit), circa 1913.

porcelain, enamel paint;
light rubbing of red paint on dress straps; height 21.5 cm;
Signed in cobalt under-glaze scepter, brick red enamel royal apple with cross and letters KPM below, impression A, engraved: 9638 (model no.).
Berlin, Royal Porcelain Manufactory (KPM), model: by Prof. Paul Schley (1854-1942), ca. 1913 - interwar period.
On a circular base a standing girl with her arms folded back, wearing a vertically striped dress tied with a lilac ribbon, wearing black boots, with a cherry bow in her hair. Model of Prof. Paul Schley, a member of the Verein Berliner Künstler, employed by the KPM as a sculptor-master modeler from 1885-1920; figure in the style of Jugendstil.