A MEISSEN BISCUIT PORCELAIN FIGURE OF THE RECUMBENT MARY MAGDALEN, modelled by Chr. Gottfried Juechtzer, naturalistically modelled in relief as the repentant Magdalen holding her hands in prayer, showing a nude breast, with long curly hair, wearing a flowing garment, reading a book beside a skull, after a painting by Pompeo Batoni in the Dresdener Gemäldegalerie, above a large rectangular underbase, Pressmarke H 31, (finger missing), late 18th Century

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A MEISSEN BISCUIT PORCELAIN FIGURE OF THE RECUMBENT MARY MAGDALEN, modelled by Chr. Gottfried Juechtzer, naturalistically modelled in relief as the repentant Magdalen holding her hands in prayer, showing a nude breast, with long curly hair, wearing a flowing garment, reading a book beside a skull, after a painting by Pompeo Batoni in the Dresdener Gemäldegalerie, above a large rectangular underbase, Pressmarke H 31, (finger missing), late 18th Century
26.5 cm high (2)

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