VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A MEISSEN FIGURE GROUP 'THE RAPE OF PERSEPHONE'
Details
A MEISSEN FIGURE GROUP 'THE RAPE OF PERSEPHONE'
CIRCA 1750, INCISED CROSSED SWORDS AT BACK
Persephone scantily draped in puce-flowered green drapery and flower garlands resting on her shoulders, Pluto with gilt-flowered pink drapery striding beside a tree-trunk with applied flowers, on rococo scroll base enriched with gilding (chips to fingers on both of her hands, her ribbon and leaves)--9 1/8in. (23.2cm.) high
CIRCA 1750, INCISED CROSSED SWORDS AT BACK
Persephone scantily draped in puce-flowered green drapery and flower garlands resting on her shoulders, Pluto with gilt-flowered pink drapery striding beside a tree-trunk with applied flowers, on rococo scroll base enriched with gilding (chips to fingers on both of her hands, her ribbon and leaves)--9 1/8in. (23.2cm.) high
Provenance
Anon. Sale, Christie's Rome, November 29, 1989, lot 163