Lot: 2232
Date of sale: 12. Tue Nov 2024
Allegory of Poetry, mark 1740-178
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Allegory of Poetry, mark 1740-1780, from a series of 40 groups for Empress Catherine II, designed by Michael Victor Acier 1773-1775,on an irregular base beside a pedestal with medallion Catherine the Great standing putto with lyre and seated putto writing in a book with a pen, behind him a floating cupid as inspiration, white, firing cracks, h. 22 cm, ref.: Bergmann, Meissener Figuren, vol. II/3, p. 132, ill. 3380.
Category: Porcelain Part I
