A MEISSEN GROUP OF PHOEBUS IN THE CHARIOT OF THE SUN after the original model by J. J. Kändler, in three sections, the young god seated brandishing a torch, wearing claret and gilt drapery accompanied by a cherub holding a sun emblem and reflector, the chariot issuing radiating sun-beams, his wheels with spokes of fire, among billowing clouds strewn with arrows, drawn by two (detachable) pairs of excitable white horses wearing blue harness enriched with 'jewels' and with pendant gilt rings, on a lobed shaped oval base with moulded horizontal gadroon, flowerhead-and-leaf and laurel-wreath borders (torch lacking in Phoebus's right hand, cherub's hands restored and objects lacking, restoration to two flanking horses and one foreleg lacking, some minute chips), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 45, incised No. 3, circa 1880

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A MEISSEN GROUP OF PHOEBUS IN THE CHARIOT OF THE SUN after the original model by J. J. Kändler, in three sections, the young god seated brandishing a torch, wearing claret and gilt drapery accompanied by a cherub holding a sun emblem and reflector, the chariot issuing radiating sun-beams, his wheels with spokes of fire, among billowing clouds strewn with arrows, drawn by two (detachable) pairs of excitable white horses wearing blue harness enriched with 'jewels' and with pendant gilt rings, on a lobed shaped oval base with moulded horizontal gadroon, flowerhead-and-leaf and laurel-wreath borders (torch lacking in Phoebus's right hand, cherub's hands restored and objects lacking, restoration to two flanking horses and one foreleg lacking, some minute chips), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummern 45, incised No. 3, circa 1880
17in. (43cm.) wide

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King Ludwig II of Bavaria commissioned the reproduction of the original 18th Century model. Cf. Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and Barbara Mundt, Nineteenth Century European Porcelain, p. 187, pl. 326. An example sold in these Rooms, 29 October 1992, lot 132

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