MEISSEN - Lot 52

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MEISSEN - Lot 52
MEISSEN Large porcelain group allegory of America under the features of an Indian woman wearing a headdress and feathers, sitting on a crocodile, holding in her left hand a cornucopia filled with fruit and in the right hand a parrot, on a rectangular terrace with flowers and foliage in relief. Model by Friedrich Eberlein and Peter Reinicke. Marked : crossed swords in blue. 18th century, circa 1745-1747. H. 28 cm, L. 22 cm. Accident. The models of the Four Continents were created by Eberlein and Reinicke from October 1745 probably after engravings of the Continents by Collaert after Martin de Vos published around 1586-1591 or the engravings by Goffried Bernhard Götz published around 1735-1738. Another smaller version of the Continents is modeled by Kaendler. The series of large Continents figures, of which our America figure is a part, originated as a diplomatic gift from Augustus III to Tsarina Elisabeth Petrovna of Russia in 1745 (1709-1762) to accompany the St. Andrew service. See Ulrich Pietsch, Meißen für die Zaren, 200', no. 144, pp. 90-93 and Röbbig, Sarah-Katharina Andres-Acevedo¸The Prince Amyn Aga Kahn Collection of Early Meissen Porcelain¸fig. 70-71, pp. 263-266.
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