A MEISSEN GROUP OF A LADY PLAYING A LUTE modelled by F. E. Meyer, in a loose white shift, yellow-ground flowered robe and sandals, seated on a rock before a tree entwined with flowering foliage beside a pierced basket of fruit, on an extensive mound base applied with flowers and reeds and moulded with scrolls enriched with gilding (restoration to her right wrist, left hand, neck of lute, extremities of tree, tree-trunk, basket, flowers, reeds and base), incised D:7 to back of base, circa 1755

Details

A MEISSEN GROUP OF A LADY PLAYING A LUTE modelled by F. E. Meyer, in a loose white shift, yellow-ground flowered robe and sandals, seated on a rock before a tree entwined with flowering foliage beside a pierced basket of fruit, on an extensive mound base applied with flowers and reeds and moulded with scrolls enriched with gilding (restoration to her right wrist, left hand, neck of lute, extremities of tree, tree-trunk, basket, flowers, reeds and base), incised D:7 to back of base, circa 1755
17.5cm. high

Provenance

Dr. Emil and Dr. Erika Pauls Collection

Literature

Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 150-151

Lot Essay

It has been suggested that this group was a special order for Frederick the Great of Prussia, commissioned during the occupation of Meissen during the Seven Years War

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