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A MEISSEN EQUESTRIAN GROUP EMBLEMATIC OF EUROPE FROM A SET OF THE FOUR CONTINENTS
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A MEISSEN EQUESTRIAN GROUP EMBLEMATIC OF EUROPE FROM A SET OF THE FOUR CONTINENTS

CIRCA 1755-63

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A MEISSEN EQUESTRIAN GROUP EMBLEMATIC OF EUROPE FROM A SET OF THE FOUR CONTINENTS
CIRCA 1755-63
Modelled by J.J. Kändler, with the crowned figure of Europe riding a prancing horse side-saddle, holding an orb and sceptre, wearing a yellow-lined purple robe and a turquoise-lined flowered skirt, the horse rearing up on its hind legs and supported below by rocks, a globe, gilt protractor and an open book below, two tree-stumps at the reverse, on an elongated shaped oval mound base applied with flowers and foliage (restoration to sceptre, crown, horse's left foreleg, three branches lacking from tree-stumps disguised by small over-painting, very small restored chip to horse's left ear, slight wear)
7¼ in. (18.3 cm.) high
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This group was first modelled by Kändler in 1745. A similar example is illustrated by W.B. Honey, Dresden China (London, 1934), pl. XLVIa, and another by Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures (London, 1987), p. 77.