A LARGE MEISSEN BISCUIT GROUP OF TERPSICHORE AND THE FIVE SENSES, in the neoclassical style, probably after models by C.G. Jüchtzer, naturalistically modelled in relief with a large ribbed central column surmounted with a scantily clad dancing maiden dressed à l'antique with a tunic, allegorical for Dance, surrounded by five dressed maiden en suite with various gestures, on circular rockwork base applied with leaves, the sides with a band of guilloches with a blindstamp for biscuit (according to 'Meissen 75' after 1814) and Pressmarken L15, F and 86, after 1814
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A LARGE MEISSEN BISCUIT GROUP OF TERPSICHORE AND THE FIVE SENSES, in the neoclassical style, probably after models by C.G. Jüchtzer, naturalistically modelled in relief with a large ribbed central column surmounted with a scantily clad dancing maiden dressed à l'antique with a tunic, allegorical for Dance, surrounded by five dressed maiden en suite with various gestures, on circular rockwork base applied with leaves, the sides with a band of guilloches with a blindstamp for biscuit (according to 'Meissen 75' after 1814) and Pressmarken L15, F and 86, after 1814
42 cm high
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