Lot: 2070

Date of sale: 2. Wed Apr 2025

Allegory of Poetry, mark 1740-1780, fr

173

Start price: EUR 500

Sales Tax: On buyer's premium only

Allegory of Poetry, mark 1740-1780, from a series of 40 groups for Empress Catherine II, designed by Michael Victor Acier 1773-1775, on an irregular base next to a pedestal with medallion Catherine the Great, standing putto with lyre and seated putto writing in a book with a pen, behind him a floating cupid as inspiration, white, firing cracks, h. 22 cm, illus.: Bergmann, Meissener Figuren, vol. II/3, p. 132, ill. 3380.

Category: Porcelain Part I

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