Lot 496A
LARGE MEISSEN FIGURE GROUP OF 'AMPHITRITE'S TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION'
LATE 19TH CENTURY
Auction: Lots 336 - 597 | 05 September at 10am
Description
after the original modelled by Johann Joachim Kändler in 1772, this is the central section of the model, which was made in four parts, depicting Amphitrite in the ocean waves in her shell chariot, with her burgundy robes billowing above her, bejewelled with pearls and coral, with two nereids and a triton alongside holding a garland of seaweed and shells, surrounded by the ocean waves, blue crossed swords mark
Dimensions
38.5cm high, 36cm wide
Footnote
The original figure, modelled by Kaendler in 1772, was part of an elaborate gift for Czarina Catherine II, the so-called ‘Great Russian Order' of porcelain made for the Russian Court. It was intended for the decoration of a cabinet in the Pavilion near the Bobsleigh Hills in the park of Oranienbaum Palace near St Petersburg; Amphitrite was intended to allude to Catherine the Great.