A MEISSEN FIGURE GROUP OF THE THREE FATES

BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INCISED MODEL NO. O126., IMPRESSED 147 AND PAINTED 63., MODELLED BY EMMERICH ANDRESEN, CIRCA 1890

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A MEISSEN FIGURE GROUP OF THE THREE FATES
BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INCISED MODEL NO. O126., IMPRESSED 147 AND PAINTED 63., MODELLED BY EMMERICH ANDRESEN, CIRCA 1890
In the neo-Rococo taste, modelled as three scantily draped beauties spinning and measuring the thread of life, embracing above a rainbow and clouds, resting on a gilt enriched canted rectangular base
16¾ in. (42.5 cm.) high

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See Dr. K. Berling, ed., Meissen China an Illustrated History, New York, 1972, fig. 256, p. 100 for a massive mantel clock surmounted by this figure group.
Emmerich Andresen is recorded at the Meissen factory as a sculptor and manager of modelling, 1886-1902.

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