Lot 393
393
A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE GROUP OF DIANA AND ENDYMION
PROPERTY FROM A MASSACHUSETTS ESTATE (LOT 393)
A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE GROUP OF DIANA AND ENDYMION

LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INCISED J.8., IMPRESSED 148, PAINTED 20, AFTER THE MODEL BY J.C. SCHÖNHEIT

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE GROUP OF DIANA AND ENDYMION
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INCISED J.8., IMPRESSED 148, PAINTED 20, AFTER THE MODEL BY J.C. SCHÖNHEIT
Modeled with the goddess standing on rockwork, embracing the sleeping youth, on a square gilt enriched base
11¼ in. (28.5 cm.) high

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In exchange for perpetual youth, Endymion was sentenced by Jupiter to sleep forever. Diana, the moon goddess, fell in love with this handsome slumberer and visited him nightly. See K. Butler, Meissner Porzellanplatik des 18. Jahrhunderts die Sammlung die Ermitage, Leningrad, 1977, pl. 296 for an example of this model in the Hermitage.

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