Lot Essay
Cf. the similar group offered in these Rooms, 29th November 1976, lot 223.
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CIRCA 1750
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A Meissen allegorical group of Love
Circa 1750
Modelled as three cupids, one blind-folded and choosing a scroll from a dish on an oval table with gilt cabriole legs, his companion scantily draped in a pale yellow flowered cloak and seated on a pink-upholstered high-back chair, another putto resting between them and inscribing a book Di Mille amanti un bea.., on an elaborate shaped oval scroll-moulded base enriched with gilding and applied with coloured flowers and foliage (restoration to blind-folded cupid's right hand, seated cupid's right wing, and the third cupid's right hand and both feet, some minor restoration and chipping to extremities, flowers and foliage)
7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) high
Circa 1750
Modelled as three cupids, one blind-folded and choosing a scroll from a dish on an oval table with gilt cabriole legs, his companion scantily draped in a pale yellow flowered cloak and seated on a pink-upholstered high-back chair, another putto resting between them and inscribing a book Di Mille amanti un bea.., on an elaborate shaped oval scroll-moulded base enriched with gilding and applied with coloured flowers and foliage (restoration to blind-folded cupid's right hand, seated cupid's right wing, and the third cupid's right hand and both feet, some minor restoration and chipping to extremities, flowers and foliage)
7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) high
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