TWO MEISSEN FIGURE GROUPS OF BOREAS AND OREITHYIA
TWO MEISSEN FIGURE GROUPS OF BOREAS AND OREITHYIA

LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, INCISED MODEL NOS. 990. AND 1919., IMPRESSED 50 AND 111, RESPECTIVELY, AFTER THE MODELS BY P. REINICKE AND J.J. KÄNDLER

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TWO MEISSEN FIGURE GROUPS OF BOREAS AND OREITHYIA
LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, INCISED MODEL NOS. 990. AND 1919., IMPRESSED 50 AND 111, RESPECTIVELY, AFTER THE MODELS BY P. REINICKE AND J.J. KÄNDLER
Each modeled with the panicked beauty held aloft by Boreas before a tree, one on a rocky oval base, the other on a rocaille-molded oval base
9 in. (22.8 cm.) and 7 in. (17.8 cm.) high, respectively (2)

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See Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures, London, 1987, p. 85 for an 18th century example of this model.

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