A MEISSEN GROUP OF A GIRL AND AN INFANT SATYR, after a model by M. V. Acier, the girl standing naked with her right hand shielding her eyes and her left resting on the right arm of the faun kneeling beside her, with his hands clasped beseechingly, a folded white drape covering a tree-stump at her side, on rock work and a gilt-line shaped-oval base (restoration to girl's left arm and hand), blue crossed swords mark, incised D26, painted number 18, circa 1880

A MEISSEN GROUP OF A GIRL AND AN INFANT SATYR, after a model by M. V. Acier, the girl standing naked with her right hand shielding her eyes and her left resting on the right arm of the faun kneeling beside her, with his hands clasped beseechingly, a folded white drape covering a tree-stump at her side, on rock work and a gilt-line shaped-oval base (restoration to girl's left arm and hand), blue crossed swords mark, incised D26, painted number 18, circa 1880

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF A GIRL AND AN INFANT SATYR, after a model by M. V. Acier, the girl standing naked with her right hand shielding her eyes and her left resting on the right arm of the faun kneeling beside her, with his hands clasped beseechingly, a folded white drape covering a tree-stump at her side, on rock work and a gilt-line shaped-oval base (restoration to girl's left arm and hand), blue crossed swords mark, incised D26, painted number 18, circa 1880
7in. (18cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. T. H. Clarke, Marcolini Meissen Figures, Engraved by Friedrich Elsasser 1785-1792, p. 59, no. 9 for the original drawing of this group

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