Lot Essay
Jean-Gabriel Imbert L'ainé (d. 1795), maître in 1776.
Friedrich Elias Meyer (1723-85) was initially Court sculptor at Weimar. Replacing J.F. Eberlein in 1748 at Meissen as a modeller under J.J. Kändler, in 1761 he accepted an invitation from the financier J.E. Gotzkowsky to move to Berlin, where the latter had established a new porcelain factory. This was subsequently acquired by Friedrich the Great of Prussia in 1763 and was renamed the Royal factory.
Friedrich Elias Meyer (1723-85) was initially Court sculptor at Weimar. Replacing J.F. Eberlein in 1748 at Meissen as a modeller under J.J. Kändler, in 1761 he accepted an invitation from the financier J.E. Gotzkowsky to move to Berlin, where the latter had established a new porcelain factory. This was subsequently acquired by Friedrich the Great of Prussia in 1763 and was renamed the Royal factory.