A MEISSEN FIGURE GROUP, 'CAPTURE OF THE TRITONS'
A MEISSEN FIGURE GROUP, 'CAPTURE OF THE TRITONS'

LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INCISED C 35, IMPRESSED 163 AND 77, PUCE PAINTED 49., THE MODEL POSSIBLY BY J.J. KÄNDLER

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A MEISSEN FIGURE GROUP, 'CAPTURE OF THE TRITONS'
LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INCISED C 35, IMPRESSED 163 AND 77, PUCE PAINTED 49., THE MODEL POSSIBLY BY J.J. KÄNDLER
Modelled as two scantily clad nymphs hauling in a net with tritons and fish, on a rockwork base applied with bulrushes, shells, coral, a frog and a lobster
12¼ in. (31 cm.) high

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See Laurence Mitchell, Meissen Collector's Catalogue, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004, p. 75, pl. 7, no. C35 for an example of this form in the 1910 Meissen catalogue attributed to 'Kändler/Punct/Schönheit'.

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