CIRCA 1750, THE DECORATION POSSIBLY LATER, MARKED WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE CROSSED SWORDS

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A Meissen group of the ravishment of Proserpine
Circa 1750, the decoration possibly later, marked with underglaze blue crossed swords
After a model by Johann Joachim Kaendler (1750), gilt and painted in colours, modelled as the young Pluto with dark hair, flanking a treetrunk, wearing a pink-lined green drapery, carrying the elegant Proserpine on his left shoulder, she looking up in despair and pointing her arm towards above, wearing a white drapery enhanced with Indianische Blumen, on oval rocaille base applied with flowers (minute chips to one hand and foot)
19.3cm. high
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Lot Essay

Proserpine, the daughter of the corn-goddess Ceres, was picking flowers in a meadow when she was observed by Pluto, the king of the underworld. Suddenly inflamed with love, Pluto swept her away and Prosperpine was carried down to his kingdom below.

Cf. L. & Y. Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures (London 1987), p.74 ill.XXV
Another almost similar figure group, modelled by Peter Reinicke and Johann Joachim Kaendler, depicts Oreithyia and Boreas.

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