1763-1774, MARKED WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE CROSSED SWORDS ENCLOSING A DOT

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A Meissen Punktzeit mythological Mars and Venus group
1763-1774, marked with underglaze blue crossed swords enclosing a dot
Gilt and painted in colours, modelled by Johann Joachim Kaendler with Venus seated on clouds dressed in a pink and light green robe, holding flowers in her hands, the winged Cupid at her right holding a flower-filled basket, Mars seated at her left, wearing a Roman tunic with a helmet crowned with feathers and a large sword, his right foot resting on a shield and a sheath with arrows, his right hand holding a large central shield surrounded by a floral wreath, painted with a Watteauesque scene depicting a gentleman, his two female companions and a child in a formal garden with a fountain, raised on ogival waisted foot moulded with clouds, rocaille scrolls and applied with flowering branches, reserved with two shaped cartouches, one depicting a Watteauesque scene en suite, the reverse with a bouquet of Deutsche Blumen (small chips to flower extremities and the feathers to the helmet and to the left foot of Mars)
34cm. high
See illustrations on p.113 and p.4

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Lot Essay

Cf. L. & Y. Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures (London 1987), p.78 for a similar group from a series of four.
The authors designate this group with the name attribution "Diana and Alexander"

The love between Mars and Venus can be seen as an allegory of Beauty and Valour, or the conquest of Strife by Love.

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