Lot Essay
Cf. R.E. Röntgen, The Book of Meissen, Atglen-Pennsylvania, 1996, pp. 155-157 for a full discussion of this group, first created by F.E. Meyer and with further versions by M.V. Acier, Matthäi and Leuteritz.
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CIRCA 1760, MARKED WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE CROSSED SWORDS
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A Meissen porcelain group of the drunken Silenus
Circa 1760, marked with underglaze blue crossed swords
Painted in colours, modelled by F.E. Meyer, depicting the nude lolling Silenus seated on a donkey's back draped with a purple garment scattered with flowerheads, flanked by a scantily clad young Bacchus wearing a yellow-lined garment enhanced with Indianische Blumen and holding a baton, further with a recumbent bacchic putto, on oval base encrusted allover with vine leaves and bunches of grapes
19 cm. high
See illustration
Circa 1760, marked with underglaze blue crossed swords
Painted in colours, modelled by F.E. Meyer, depicting the nude lolling Silenus seated on a donkey's back draped with a purple garment scattered with flowerheads, flanked by a scantily clad young Bacchus wearing a yellow-lined garment enhanced with Indianische Blumen and holding a baton, further with a recumbent bacchic putto, on oval base encrusted allover with vine leaves and bunches of grapes
19 cm. high
See illustration
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