LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMERN
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Four Meissen figures of allegorical figures of Continents and another emblematic of Africa
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMERN
Modelled as Europa holding a gilt sceptre and wearing an ermine-lined claret-coloured robed, standing before a globe and books, a cornucopia to the reverse; a figure of Asia modelled holding a gilt sceptre and an incense burner, wearing a tall headdress and long flowered robe, her gilt scroll-moulded base moulded with a camel in relief; a scantily-clad maiden modelled as America, dressed in polychrome feathers balanced on a cornucopia; the model of Africa based F.E.Meyer's blackamoore tribesman wearing an elephant headdress, pink cloak and feathered tunic, his grassy, gilt scroll-moulded base moulded with a lion; and a figure of America, after J.J.Kandler's original, modelled as an Indian Princess seated on a crocodile holding a cornucopia, wearing a feather cape, headdress and skirt, before a tall palm tree, on a grassy shaped-oval base
Europa 5 7/8 in. (14.6 cm.) high; America 7 in. (17.7 cm.) high (5)
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMERN
Modelled as Europa holding a gilt sceptre and wearing an ermine-lined claret-coloured robed, standing before a globe and books, a cornucopia to the reverse; a figure of Asia modelled holding a gilt sceptre and an incense burner, wearing a tall headdress and long flowered robe, her gilt scroll-moulded base moulded with a camel in relief; a scantily-clad maiden modelled as America, dressed in polychrome feathers balanced on a cornucopia; the model of Africa based F.E.Meyer's blackamoore tribesman wearing an elephant headdress, pink cloak and feathered tunic, his grassy, gilt scroll-moulded base moulded with a lion; and a figure of America, after J.J.Kandler's original, modelled as an Indian Princess seated on a crocodile holding a cornucopia, wearing a feather cape, headdress and skirt, before a tall palm tree, on a grassy shaped-oval base
Europa 5 7/8 in. (14.6 cm.) high; America 7 in. (17.7 cm.) high (5)
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