• 500 Years: Decorative Arts Eur auction at Christies

    Sale 2360

    500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets

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    23 November 2010

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    • A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURE GRO
    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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    USD 3,500

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    USD 2,500 - USD 3,500

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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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    Lot Essay

    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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    PROPERTY FROM A MASSACHUSETTS ESTATE (LOT 393)

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