A MEISSEN (OUTSIDE-DECORATED) EQUESTRIAN GROUP OF EMPRESS CATHERINE II OF RUSSIA after the original model by J. J. Kändler facing right, her long hair en queue, wearing a black tricorn hat, yellow gauntlets, a yellow-lined lilac coat with gilt buttons, a pink moiré sash with the Imperial eagle, white shirt, waistcoat and breeches and black boots with gilt stirrups, seated on a tasselled claret saddle-cloth enriched in gilding, with two pistols in similarly decorated pouches, on a tree-stump grassy and rocky oval base edged with white and gilt scrolls and with a spray of turquoise foliage (firing crack to base, restoration to horse's forelegs, sword, reins, tips of horse's ears, and tips of foliage, short part of reins lacking, chips beneath footrim and to leaves on base), cancelled blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 33, incised 6.92., circa 1880

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A MEISSEN (OUTSIDE-DECORATED) EQUESTRIAN GROUP OF EMPRESS CATHERINE II OF RUSSIA after the original model by J. J. Kändler facing right, her long hair en queue, wearing a black tricorn hat, yellow gauntlets, a yellow-lined lilac coat with gilt buttons, a pink moiré sash with the Imperial eagle, white shirt, waistcoat and breeches and black boots with gilt stirrups, seated on a tasselled claret saddle-cloth enriched in gilding, with two pistols in similarly decorated pouches, on a tree-stump grassy and rocky oval base edged with white and gilt scrolls and with a spray of turquoise foliage (firing crack to base, restoration to horse's forelegs, sword, reins, tips of horse's ears, and tips of foliage, short part of reins lacking, chips beneath footrim and to leaves on base), cancelled blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 33, incised 6.92., circa 1880
9¾in. (25cm.) high

拍品专文

The group was modelled by Kändler in 1762, after the portrait by Vigilius Eriksen in which she wears the uniform of the Preobrazhenskii regiment, which Kändler noted in his model book in 1770. The Empress ordered this group to form a pair to the mounted figure of Empress Elizabeth, modelled by Kändler in 1742.
Cf. Dr. K. Berling, (ed.), op. cit., Table 12, no. 4. See also K. Butler, Meissner Porzellanplastik des 18. Jahrhunderts, Die Sammlung der Ermitage, no. 268 for examples of the 1760's