A GERMAN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF AUGUSTUS III after the Meissen original modelled by J. J. Kändler, standing with his right arm akimbo, wearing a white coat edged with gilt scrolls, a pink tunic with a pink and purple striped sash at his waist, the Order of the White Eagle on a blue sash and with the Order of the Golden Fleece at his neck, a fur-lined green cap in his left hand and a sabre suspended from a belt at his waist, wearing yellow boots and standing on a square base applied with coloured flowers (old restoration and damage to sabre, hair cracks to robe, shoes and base, chips to petals), blue interlaced C marks, late 19th Century

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A GERMAN PORCELAIN FIGURE OF AUGUSTUS III after the Meissen original modelled by J. J. Kändler, standing with his right arm akimbo, wearing a white coat edged with gilt scrolls, a pink tunic with a pink and purple striped sash at his waist, the Order of the White Eagle on a blue sash and with the Order of the Golden Fleece at his neck, a fur-lined green cap in his left hand and a sabre suspended from a belt at his waist, wearing yellow boots and standing on a square base applied with coloured flowers (old restoration and damage to sabre, hair cracks to robe, shoes and base, chips to petals), blue interlaced C marks, late 19th Century
30in. (76cm.) high

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The original Meissen figure from which this is copied shows the King wearing the dress of a Polish Magnate and was one of a series of three ordered by the Saxon Court. The other figures, a standing and an equestrian group, show him wearing the robes of a Roman Emperor. Cf. Dr. K. Berling (Ed.), op. cit., p. 35, Fig. 61 for an example of 1740-41.

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