A MEISSEN FIGURE OF PSYCHE, modelled by Hoelbe, the winged maiden seated gazing serenely at a butterfly perched on her right hand, her hair en chignon adorned with blue bands, wearing a purple drape across her thighs and legs, her left hand resting on her lyre supported against a fruiting leafy branch, her right hand resting on a stump, on a tree-trunk circular base and a waisted gilt line circular plinth (restoration to left hand and butterfly and to leaves, fruit and tips of stump and lyre, leaves chipped, slight wear to gilding), incised ???? Dresden, blue crosssed swords marks, Pressnummern 132, 195 and 196, the figure incised N.196X, the plinth incised N.195X and N. 196X, circa 1890

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A MEISSEN FIGURE OF PSYCHE, modelled by Hoelbe, the winged maiden seated gazing serenely at a butterfly perched on her right hand, her hair en chignon adorned with blue bands, wearing a purple drape across her thighs and legs, her left hand resting on her lyre supported against a fruiting leafy branch, her right hand resting on a stump, on a tree-trunk circular base and a waisted gilt line circular plinth (restoration to left hand and butterfly and to leaves, fruit and tips of stump and lyre, leaves chipped, slight wear to gilding), incised ???? Dresden, blue crosssed swords marks, Pressnummern 132, 195 and 196, the figure incised N.196X, the plinth incised N.195X and N. 196X, circa 1890
17¼in. (44cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Dr. K. Berling, (ed.), op. cit., Table 27, no. 14. This figure of Psyche is adapted from a painting reproduced on porcelain plaques at Berlin, an example sold in these Rooms, 23 May 1991, lot 276

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