PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT MEISSEN AND BERLIN JUGENDSTIL COLLECTION

EIGHT BERLIN PORCELAIN FIGURES FROM THE TABLE GARNITURE, 'THE BIRTH OF BEAUTY' (DER TAFELAUFSATZ 'GEBURT DER SCHÖNHEIT')

CIRCA 1940-1942, ALL WITH BLUE SCEPTRE MARKS, IMPRESSED ST TO THE THREE LARGE FIGURE GROUPS

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EIGHT BERLIN PORCELAIN FIGURES FROM THE TABLE GARNITURE, 'THE BIRTH OF BEAUTY' (DER TAFELAUFSATZ 'GEBURT DER SCHÖNHEIT')
CIRCA 1940-1942, ALL WITH BLUE SCEPTRE MARKS, IMPRESSED ST TO THE THREE LARGE FIGURE GROUPS
Including: 'Najade auf Hippocamp', 'Triton und Nereide', 'Triton mit Muschelhorn, die Brandung' and five models of sea sprites, some riding dolphins, others capturing fish
20 3/8 in. (51.7 cm.) high (8)

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Lot Essay

See E. Köllmann & M. Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan, München, 1987, Vol. II, p. 143, Tafel 290-291 (291a,b and d).

The present models were designed by Paul Scheurich as part of a large table garniture. Amid the Second World War, Scheurich chose to celebrate the theme 'Geburt der Schönheit', The Birth of Beauty. The central piece was a figure group depicting Venus Anadyomene surrounded by groups of Nereids, Tritons and sea creatures.

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