A MEISSEN PORCELAIN COMMEMORATIVE GELLERT GROUP, gilt and painted in colours, naturalistically modelled in relief after a model by J.J. Kaendler, the central quadrupod obelisk with a feather and a tied laurel wreath in slight relief, under a medallion depicting the biscuit portrait in profile of Gellert, under a putto holding a crown and a trumpet, above a large rocaille pedestal base, inscribed viro immortali Gellert sacrum, flanked by; a twohandled perfumeburner above a book, a putto and a mourning lady with draped garments holding a book, the base with a border of tied fasces above a border of scrolls (one hand to lower angel missing and obelisk restuck to pedestal), the base indistinctly marked with blue crossed swords and a star, 1775

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN COMMEMORATIVE GELLERT GROUP, gilt and painted in colours, naturalistically modelled in relief after a model by J.J. Kaendler, the central quadrupod obelisk with a feather and a tied laurel wreath in slight relief, under a medallion depicting the biscuit portrait in profile of Gellert, under a putto holding a crown and a trumpet, above a large rocaille pedestal base, inscribed viro immortali Gellert sacrum, flanked by; a twohandled perfumeburner above a book, a putto and a mourning lady with draped garments holding a book, the base with a border of tied fasces above a border of scrolls (one hand to lower angel missing and obelisk restuck to pedestal), the base indistinctly marked with blue crossed swords and a star, 1775

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cf. Ruckert no.1031, Tafel 253 for an illustration of a similar group

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715 - 1769) was a poet and novelist, a writer of the German Enlightenment whose works were second in popularity only to the Bible. Gellert was best known for his popular Fabeln und Erzählungen. Equally popular was Geistliche Oden und Lieder. Some of his hymns were set to music by Beethoven

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