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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A Meissen allegorical group of a Vestal Virgin and Cupid
CIRCA 1880, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 163, INCISED H.18.
细节
A Meissen allegorical group of a Vestal Virgin and Cupid
Circa 1880, blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 163, incised H.18.
The virgin's hair bound with flowered ribbons, wearing a loose yellow gilt-flowered toga, a beige-lined purple robe over her right shoulder and gilt sandals, Cupid scantily clad with a blue robe slung over his left shoulder, both holding a long garland of pink roses and standing by a flaming oval altar moulded with two ribbon-tied wreaths, the virgin dousing the flame with liquid from a shallow bowl, on a stepped oval plinth edged with gilt lines, the base edged with a band of up-turned gilt leaves divided by gadroons between gilt bands (minute chipping to garland and moulded wreaths on reverse of altar)
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high
Circa 1880, blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 163, incised H.18.
The virgin's hair bound with flowered ribbons, wearing a loose yellow gilt-flowered toga, a beige-lined purple robe over her right shoulder and gilt sandals, Cupid scantily clad with a blue robe slung over his left shoulder, both holding a long garland of pink roses and standing by a flaming oval altar moulded with two ribbon-tied wreaths, the virgin dousing the flame with liquid from a shallow bowl, on a stepped oval plinth edged with gilt lines, the base edged with a band of up-turned gilt leaves divided by gadroons between gilt bands (minute chipping to garland and moulded wreaths on reverse of altar)
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high