Lot Essay
Cf. K. Butler, op. cit. (1977), no. 186.
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AT BACK
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A Meissen mythological figure of a nymph emblematic of Earth
Circa 1750, blue crossed swords mark at back
Modelled by F.E. Meyer, in white robe and pink drapery with indianische Blumen, holding a spade and a hoe and with ears of corn in her hair, standing before a cornucopia with a pale-yellow purple-spotted dragon entwined around her, on a scroll-moulded mound base enriched in gilding and applied with foliage (restoration to her left wrist, her right thumb and tip of her left index finger lacking, chips to ear of corn, spade, drapery and foliage, crack to her chignon, chips to dragon's jowl)
6 1/8in. (15.5cm.) high
Circa 1750, blue crossed swords mark at back
Modelled by F.E. Meyer, in white robe and pink drapery with indianische Blumen, holding a spade and a hoe and with ears of corn in her hair, standing before a cornucopia with a pale-yellow purple-spotted dragon entwined around her, on a scroll-moulded mound base enriched in gilding and applied with foliage (restoration to her left wrist, her right thumb and tip of her left index finger lacking, chips to ear of corn, spade, drapery and foliage, crack to her chignon, chips to dragon's jowl)
6 1/8in. (15.5cm.) high