Lot Essay
Cf. L. & Y. Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures (London 1987), p.83 for an example of an 18th century Meissen Venus seated in a similar horse-drawn chariot.
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19TH CENTURY, THE CHARIOT MARKED WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE CROSSED SWORDS
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A Meissen-pattern figure group of Neptune in a chariot
19th century, the chariot marked with underglaze blue crossed swords
Gilt and painted in colours, modelled by Johann Joachim Kaendler, the bearded Neptune scantily clad and wearing a blue-lined lilac garment, seated on a rocaille chariot enhanced with insects and butterflies with two spoked wheels, flanked by a triton holding a horn, further with a hippocampus with its mouth wide open and curling fish tail (damages)
19cm. high
See illustration (2)
19th century, the chariot marked with underglaze blue crossed swords
Gilt and painted in colours, modelled by Johann Joachim Kaendler, the bearded Neptune scantily clad and wearing a blue-lined lilac garment, seated on a rocaille chariot enhanced with insects and butterflies with two spoked wheels, flanked by a triton holding a horn, further with a hippocampus with its mouth wide open and curling fish tail (damages)
19cm. high
See illustration (2)
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