A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A BOWLS PLAYER modelled by Walther Schott, stooping with a gilt ball in her outstretched right hand, her long loose tresses coiled at her nape, wearing a shaded pale-green robe tied with a pink sash, freeing her movements by drawing up her skirts in her left hand, standing against a short stump applied with ivy, on a waisted circular base moulded with gilt bands and chain-pattern (restoration to right hand and ball and to ivy, minute chips to base), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnumer 147, incised Q 180, circa 1897

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF A BOWLS PLAYER modelled by Walther Schott, stooping with a gilt ball in her outstretched right hand, her long loose tresses coiled at her nape, wearing a shaded pale-green robe tied with a pink sash, freeing her movements by drawing up her skirts in her left hand, standing against a short stump applied with ivy, on a waisted circular base moulded with gilt bands and chain-pattern (restoration to right hand and ball and to ivy, minute chips to base), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnumer 147, incised Q 180, circa 1897
14¼in. (36.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Hermann Jedding, Meissener Porzellan des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, p. 97, no. 110. See also Dr. K. Berling, (ed.), Meissen China, An Illustrated History, p. 100, Fig. 266. This figure, an example of the new sculptural tradition of the closing years of the 19th Century, is sometimes known as Atalanta stooping to pick up a golden apple dropped by her suitor Hippomenes during their race

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