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A Berlin allegorical group of Architecture
Circa 1780, blue sceptre mark, black enamel cross
Modelled by Willhelm Christian Meyer, with triumphant Architecture standing with a robe draped about her legs and waist, a corner of it held in her hand with a set-square, ruler and plan, a gilded trumpet in her other hand, a richly dressed patron with a sack of money weighing heavily on his head counts building costs while seated on a marbled fluted column base, an empty money sack in his hand, behind him a monkey, holding another empty sack and a mallet, peers round a perspective drawing at his side, the reverse of the square mound base moulded with BAUKUNST (restoration to mouth-piece of trumpet and objects in her left hand, minor chipping to edge of base, minute chip to his right shoe)
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high
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