CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO EDGE OF BASE

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A MEISSEN EQUESTRIAN GROUP OF ELISABETH OF RUSSIA
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO EDGE OF BASE
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, the Empress on a rearing horse with a blackamoor in attendance, wearing a black tricorn hat, white gloves and black riding boots, in a purple-lined turquoise uniform with a gilt badge of an Order, another badge of an Order suspended from a yellow sash, holding a baton in her out-stretched right hand, the red saddle-cloth and pistol holders with gilt foliage and tassels, the moor wearing a plumed turban, silver-edged yellow jacket and breeches and pink tunic, the horse suported below by a tree-stump, on an oval mound base applied with flowers and foliage (horse broken from base through hind leg, underbelly, base of tail and side of moor's coat and restored, horse's forelegs and Empress's right arm restuck, scabbard and attendant's thumb and little finger lacking, further small areas of restoration and damage to extremities)
9¾ in. (24.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Apparently The Hermitage, St. Petersburg (red inventory number 225)
With Schmidt, from whom it was acquired in 1961.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

See the von Pannwitz example, sold by Helbing, Munich, on 24-25th October 1905, lot 375, pl. LXXXVI, which was described as being a portrait of Augustus III. Another example from the Klemperer collection lacks the moorish attendant, see Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, op. cit. (1928), pl. 65, no. 614.

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