Lot Essay
A variant of this model in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, is illustrated by E. Köllmann and M. Jarchow, Berliner Porzellan (Munich, 1987), fig. 184.
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CIRCA 1785, BLUE SCEPTRE MARK, INCISED C.M.
Details
A BERLIN (K.P.M.) MYTHOLOGICAL GROUP
CIRCA 1785, BLUE SCEPTRE MARK, INCISED C.M.
Modelled by Johann Georg Müller with Bacchus scantily draped in a goat's pelt, his hair garlanded with fruiting vine, standing with a raised goblet, Ariadne seated below him and scantily draped in a green-lined pink robe, resting a tambourine on her knee, with two leopards nearby, on an oval rocky mound base (her right leg broken and restored, restored chips to tambourine, restoration to two of leopard's ears, minor chipping to garlands)
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high
CIRCA 1785, BLUE SCEPTRE MARK, INCISED C.M.
Modelled by Johann Georg Müller with Bacchus scantily draped in a goat's pelt, his hair garlanded with fruiting vine, standing with a raised goblet, Ariadne seated below him and scantily draped in a green-lined pink robe, resting a tambourine on her knee, with two leopards nearby, on an oval rocky mound base (her right leg broken and restored, restored chips to tambourine, restoration to two of leopard's ears, minor chipping to garlands)
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high
Provenance
With Keoppe, from whom it was acquired in 1956.
Special notice
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