A MEISSEN PORCELAIN AMOROUS FIGURE GROUP, 'THE DECISIVE CHOICE'
PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION (LOT 372)
A MEISSEN PORCELAIN AMOROUS FIGURE GROUP, 'THE DECISIVE CHOICE'

LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK WITH SINGLE INCISION, POSSIBLY OUTSIDE-DECORATED, INCISED MODEL NO. J.49, IRON-RED 54., AFTER THE MODEL BY J.C. SCHÖNHEIT

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN AMOROUS FIGURE GROUP, 'THE DECISIVE CHOICE'
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK WITH SINGLE INCISION, POSSIBLY OUTSIDE-DECORATED, INCISED MODEL NO. J.49, IRON-RED 54., AFTER THE MODEL BY J.C. SCHÖNHEIT
Modeled as a young woman being courted by a lover as another is spurned, on an oval base molded and gilt with acanthus stiff-leaf tips
12 in. (30.4 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

See T.H. Clarke, Marcolini Meissen Figures Engraved by Friedrich Elasser 1785-1792, London, 1988, pp. 51 and 108, fig. 185.

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