A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A YOUNG WOMAN ALLEGORICAL OF WOMANHOOD OR OF TRAVEL, seated wearing a plumed headdress, lilac-lined flowered dress adorned with a brooch and a yellow and ochre cloak secured by a spotted sash, gazing at a parrot on her outstretched right hand and holding a large black anchor suspending a coiled rope in her left, seated before a leafy stump on a grassy oval base moulded with white and gilt scrolls (chip and restoration to leaves), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnumer 110, incised 14.76., painted number 58, circa 1880

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A YOUNG WOMAN ALLEGORICAL OF WOMANHOOD OR OF TRAVEL, seated wearing a plumed headdress, lilac-lined flowered dress adorned with a brooch and a yellow and ochre cloak secured by a spotted sash, gazing at a parrot on her outstretched right hand and holding a large black anchor suspending a coiled rope in her left, seated before a leafy stump on a grassy oval base moulded with white and gilt scrolls (chip and restoration to leaves), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnumer 110, incised 14.76., painted number 58, circa 1880
6½in. (16.5cm.) high

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Cf. K. Butler, op. cit, no. 146, for an 18th Century example in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

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