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A LARGE FRAUREUTH SAXON PORCELAIN GROUP OF LADY GODIVA ON HORSEBACK, after a model by A. Grath, in the art-déco style, the white-ground group naturalistically modelled in relief with a nude female figure seated en amazone on a starstudded black cloth covering the back of a large standing portly horse, on very flat plinth covered with gilt leaves, inscribed Lady Godiva to the front impressed A. Grath to the plinth, marked handgemallt modell Fraureuth to the base, first quarter 20th Century

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A LARGE FRAUREUTH SAXON PORCELAIN GROUP OF LADY GODIVA ON HORSEBACK, after a model by A. Grath, in the art-déco style, the white-ground group naturalistically modelled in relief with a nude female figure seated en amazone on a starstudded black cloth covering the back of a large standing portly horse, on very flat plinth covered with gilt leaves, inscribed Lady Godiva to the front impressed A. Grath to the plinth, marked handgemallt modell Fraureuth to the base, first quarter 20th Century
50 cm high

Lady Godiva (?1040-1080), Anglo-Saxon gentlewoman famous for her legendary ride while nude through Coventry, Warwickshire.
Her husband, Leofric Earl of Mercia, agreed to decrease the taxes imposed on the population after her commitment to ride nude through a crowded marketplace.