CIRCA 1780, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS * AND H MARK

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A Meissen (Marcolini) model of a monument
Circa 1780, blue crossed swords * and H mark
Modelled by J.J. Kändler and C.G. Jünchtzer as a slender tapering obelisk surmounted by a dove, entwined with gilt-berried myrtle and applied with an oval biscuit portrait medallion of Gellert in profile to the left on a simulated stone ground, with a trumpeting putto holding a gilt crown above, the lower part with a PX monogram and resting on four gilt ball feet supported by a scroll-moulded bombé plinth inscribed in gilt by a putto viro Immortali GELLERT Sacrum. and flanked by a mourning woman with a book and a two-handled pot-pourri vase, on a ribbon-tied reeded shaped base edged with gilt vitruvian scrolls (restoration to putto's trumpet, seated putto's wings, left arm and woman's left fingers, minor chipping to veil, ground chip to underside of base at front, some minute chipping to extremities)
11 3/8 in. (29 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

See the similar example in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), p. 253, fig. 1031, and p. 187 where Rückert points out that this was the last model that Kändler worked on.

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert was a poet (died in Leipzig in 1769).

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