Live Auction 2622EUROPEAN CERAMICS, DUTCH DELFTWARE AND GLASS
A Meissen porcelain mythological group
Lot 235

A Meissen porcelain mythological group

CIRCA 1880, DOUBLE MARKED WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE CROSSED SWORDS WITH DOTTED HILTS, DOUBLE INCISED 32 ABOVE PRESSNUMMER 120

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A Meissen porcelain mythological group
CIRCA 1880, DOUBLE MARKED WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE CROSSED SWORDS WITH DOTTED HILTS, DOUBLE INCISED 32 ABOVE PRESSNUMMER 120
After a model by J.J. Kaendler, depicting the triumphant Apollo over the slain serpent Python, Minerva and a genius in attendance, his left foot on a male nude about to eat a heart, on a stepped trapezoidal base
37.5 cm. high

Specialist note

In hommage to this victory the Pythian Games were established.
Cf. Dr. K. Berling (ed.), Meissen China an Illustrated History, New York, 1972, fig. 149, p. 64 and 66 for an illustration of this model originally executed in 1774 as part of a large order for Catherine the Great.