A Meissen porcelain group of Jason and Medea
Circa 1745, marked with indistinct blue crossed swords
Gilt and painted in colours, modelled by J.J. Kaendler depicting a scantily clad classical maiden or Medea, seated on a flower-encrusted rock, holding some flowers in her left hand, her companion, the scantily clad Jason, kneeling beside her, embracing her and kissing her forehead, a putto flanked by a flower-filled basket on her other side
15 cm. high
See illustration
A Meissen porcelain group of Jason and Medea
Circa 1745, marked with indistinct blue crossed swords
Gilt and painted in colours, modelled by J.J. Kaendler depicting a scantily clad classical maiden or Medea, seated on a flower-encrusted rock, holding some flowers in her left hand, her companion, the scantily clad Jason, kneeling beside her, embracing her and kissing her forehead, a putto flanked by a flower-filled basket on her other side
15 cm. high
See illustration