A MEISSEN GROUP OF THE LOVER DISCOVERED, modelled as a lady and gentleman wearing flowered night-clothes, on a white bed moulded with gilt scrolls and laden with striped and chequered mattresses, the lady reclining drinking a cup of chocolate taken from a tray on a tripod table, listening to the whispered words of Cupid hiding under the mattress, her husband leaning over the foot of the bed to search after the vanished lover, joined by his barking dog (restoration to table and associated corner of drapery, to Cupid's bow and associated corner of bed and to dog's tail), blue crossed swords mark, incised D64, painted number 12, circa 1880 | Christie's

Lot 566

566

A MEISSEN GROUP OF THE LOVER DISCOVERED, modelled as a lady and gentleman wearing flowered night-clothes, on a white bed moulded with gilt scrolls and laden with striped and chequered mattresses, the lady reclining drinking a cup of chocolate taken from a tray on a tripod table, listening to the whispered words of Cupid hiding under the mattress, her husband leaning over the foot of the bed to search after the vanished lover, joined by his barking dog (restoration to table and associated corner of drapery, to Cupid's bow and associated corner of bed and to dog's tail), blue crossed swords mark, incised D64, painted number 12, circa 1880

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF THE LOVER DISCOVERED, modelled as a lady and gentleman wearing flowered night-clothes, on a white bed moulded with gilt scrolls and laden with striped and chequered mattresses, the lady reclining drinking a cup of chocolate taken from a tray on a tripod table, listening to the whispered words of Cupid hiding under the mattress, her husband leaning over the foot of the bed to search after the vanished lover, joined by his barking dog (restoration to table and associated corner of drapery, to Cupid's bow and associated corner of bed and to dog's tail), blue crossed swords mark, incised D64, painted number 12, circa 1880
7½in. (19cm.) wide

Lot Essay

This group was constructed in two sections, with a separately modelled figure of the lover. See Dr. K. Berling, (ed.), op. cit., p. 61, Fig. 140. An example sold in these Rooms, 18 March 1993, lot 123

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