LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INCISED MODEL NO. 29, IMPRESSED 36, IRON-RED 26, AFTER THE MODEL BY M.V. ACIER

See Dr. K. Berling, ed., Meissen China Illustrated History, New York, 1972, p. 65-6 for a discussion of this series of allegorical and mythological groups originally designed in 1772-74 for the Meissen room at the Oranienbaum Palace of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg. Also see Meissen für die Zaren, op. cit., p. 104, abb. 25 for an 18th century version of this model.