A MEISSEN PORCELAIN HUGE GROUP OF HERA IN THE CHARIOT OF THE SUN AND HEXAPOD STAND, (Hera auf dem Sonnenwagen) Ernst August Leuteritz period (1818 - 1893), gilt and painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief, with a removable scantily clad maiden holding a flower, seated in an ornate chariot, the second part drawn by four jumping horses, on oval wavy clouds base, the hexapod stand gilt with Laub und Bandelwerk, (minor repairs), marked (1875 - 1876)

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN HUGE GROUP OF HERA IN THE CHARIOT OF THE SUN AND HEXAPOD STAND, (Hera auf dem Sonnenwagen) Ernst August Leuteritz period (1818 - 1893), gilt and painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief, with a removable scantily clad maiden holding a flower, seated in an ornate chariot, the second part drawn by four jumping horses, on oval wavy clouds base, the hexapod stand gilt with Laub und Bandelwerk, (minor repairs), marked (1875 - 1876)
37 cm high
45 cm wide

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cf. A. Fay-Hallé, Nineteenth-Century porcelain p.187 ill.326 for one of the many Sonnenwagen commissions Meissen received from Ludwig II of Bavaria for his castles at Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee.

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